Zakharova ridiculed the initiative to search transgender people in Scotland

The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, ironically commented on the report that in Scotland transgender people (LGBT people, whose movement is banned in the Russian Federation and recognized as extremist) were allowed to demand a search by police officers of different genders during their detention.

Earlier, The Telegraph newspaper reported that transgender detainees in Scotland can now request that their upper and lower bodies be searched by police officers of different genders. However, the initiative was criticized in the country, considering that it puts law enforcement officers in a dangerous position.

"When we were kids, we didn't believe that centaurs existed," the diplomat wrote ironically on her Telegram channel.

On June 28, Ramona Petravic, a member of the Latvia First Party, called for the country's Constitution to enshrine the provision on the existence of only two sexes. According to her, the claims about "hundreds and thousands" of sexes are absurd, and the vote in the Seimas showed that society has no unity on this issue. She ironically noted that even the country's prime Minister, Evika Silina, who stated that the binary model of the sexes was outdated, "lost among all these forget-me-nots and violets" and soon even those who consider themselves "aliens from the last century" would have to take their interests into account.