to undergo hormonal and even surgical correction, according to the memoirs of psychiatrist aaron belkinthe first methodological recommendations for sex change appeared already in the nineties there is such center of regulation. uh, in moscow, so i came there, they said, yes, let's, we will solve your problems. if only here, uh, to resolve the issue there with the change of documents, and then i found out that we, in ours, have such a center of surgery, when there were still all-russian ones, the union even then was there, so it’s okay to do experiments. now transsexualism in russia is considered a separate mental illness. before the adoption of the new law , it was possible to legally change sex in our country. having previously passed a medical examination and received permission , according to the press, sex change operations were performed at the alexander hospital. in st. petersburg, according to the ministry of internal affairs, from 2016 to in 2022 , more than three thousand people applied for a passport replacement due to a sex change, and the number of such people grew from year