Transgender people in Russia have had their human rights systematically eroded, a UN independent expert has told the BBC.
One year after the country passed a law banning gender reassignment surgery, Graeme Reid said transgender Russians had been deprived of their “most basic rights to a legal identity and access to healthcare”.
BBC News Russian has spoken to two transgender people who said they had no choice but to flee their homeland.
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