Gay and transgender athletes in Tokyo have been singled out for abuse on Russian state television.
There has been controversy about the IOC's decision to allow transgender athletes to compete as the gender they identify as, if they fulfil certain criteria, and whether that is fair to female competitors."I do not think transgender people have any prospects in Russia, because they love men, while Russian men love women," said Spiridon Kilinkarov, a former member of the Ukrainian parliament.At no point was the abuse challenged by the show's presenter, Olga Skabeyeva.
He went on to call transgender people "psychopaths" and suggested that they should be treated by psychiatrists.Another Russian MP, Pyotr Tolstoy from the Kremlin's United Russia party, took issue with the new Olympic motto "Faster, Higher, Stronger - Together". Russian officials and state-controlled media have presented efforts to defend LGBT rights as a Western attempt to subvert the very fabric of Russian society and statehood.
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