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MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia's lower house of parliament, the State Duma, gave its initial backing on Wednesday to legislation that would ban gender reassignment surgery. The move was in line with a drive by President Vladimir Putin to crack down on “non-traditional” lifestyles he has portrayed as evidence of Western moral decay. The legislation would ban state agencies from changing a person's gender in their personal documents. It would outlaw “any medical interventions aimed at shaping a person's primary and secondary sex characteristics”, according to a document posted in the Duma's database. …
