Wednesday, February 1, 2017

Russian doctor defies intimidation to authorise gender reassignment surgery

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February 01, 2017 at 07:00AM

Dmitri Isaev is exploiting a legal loophole to help the transgender community from a secret location in St Petersburg

You won’t find any mention of Dr Dmitri Isaev’s clinic online, and patients can’t look up the number in a phone book. Both name and address are kept secret, and those who would like an appointment with Isaev, a leading gender identity expert, must discover the location of his St Petersburg clinic by word of mouth.

The doctor has been working undercover after conservative activists led a campaign of intimidation against his clinic for transgender patients at Saint Petersburg State Paediatric Medical University.

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