The Russian Ministry of Health wants to approve a new list of medical contraindications to driving, including sexual orientation disorders and gender identity disorders. He says In the draft order of the government of the Russian Federation.
The list will include the names of ten disease groups in total. These include: organic, including symptomatic mental disorders, schizophrenia, schizotypal and delusional disorders, mood disorders, neurotic, stress-related and somatoform disorders, mental retardation, mental and behavioral disorders due to the use of psychoactive substances, epilepsy, color vision abnormalities, as well as binocular blindness.
The document also identifies personality and behavioral disorders in adulthood. These include sexual orientation disorders (F65), such as fetishism, exhibitionism, voyeurism, pedophilia and sadomasochism. We also mention gender identity disorder (F64) (transsexualism, dual-role transvestism and childhood gender identity disorder).
If the Ministry of Health’s proposal is approved, it will come into force in the fall of 2024.
Before this on social networks appeared An extensive list of drugs after which drivers are allegedly prohibited from driving. The list includes popular drugs, especially those that impair attention, such as tranquilizers and psychotropic substances, narcotic analgesics and ethyl alcohol. Then Murashko noted that the list of drugs allegedly prohibited for drivers, published by the media, is for precautionary purposes and does not have any regulatory regulations.
Later, the head of the State Traffic Inspectorate (SAI), Mikhail Chernikov, said that the list of drugs allegedly prohibited for vehicle drivers is false information.
It’s happened before known About the risk of corruption in traffic police due to dangerous driving laws.