Russia has a more progressive legislation for trans people than some EU members: Finland, Luxembourg, Latvia, Czechia, Slovakia, Romania and Bulgaria, which require sterilization for legal gender recognition.

But I can turn that question around and ask what is harm in not doing so, as humanity has done for past couple of millennia.

Trans people want to be seen as whatever gender they chose to express themselves as. They would want the same treatment in society generally They would want the same treatment in society generally as anybody who identifies as a gender. So rather than be seen as a "trans man", which implies that they are less than or different than a man, they would like to be seen as an actual man.

If we can use the category "man" to include "trans men" to make them happy, that seems like a positive thing that makes more people happy. I do not understand why that is such a problem.

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