According to her, the most alarming aspect of the trend is that children are now at the centre of these policies.
Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson, Maria Zakharova, has accused some countries of leading the world toward what she described as a dangerous line by promoting policies she called “gender garbage", warning that such approaches amount to experiments already being carried out on children.
Zakharova made the remarks while criticising governments she said have elevated controversial gender policies into long-standing state doctrine, arguing that these ideas are being enforced at the legislative level and imposed on minors from birth.
“You see, when countries are not just some crazy, abnormal, insane, crazy people, but whole countries, I'm not talking about people in a 100% ratio, but about regimes, about those who got to power there, or who were infiltrated into this power, with their own concepts, their own state policy, for decades, they've been determining this very gender garbage.
"I can't say it any other way, it's not self-determination, it's digging, pardon me, into some monstrous, not even passions, but vices, and it was elevated to an absolute level.
“I think the world has come to this dangerous line, and peeped into this abyss,” Zakharova said
According to her, the most alarming aspect of the trend is that children are now at the centre of these policies.
"Because these experiments have already started on children, and not on other people's children, but on their own, you know, I always emphasize," she said.
Zakharova argued that some states have gone as far as legally prescribing, at the point of birth, the possibility of changing one’s gender, describing such measures as unprecedented and deeply troubling.
While stressing that she would never directly compare current policies to the crimes of Nazi Germany, Zakharova nonetheless claimed that humanity had, decades later, arrived at something “comparable in form,” which she said was paradoxically being celebrated in some places as an achievement in understanding human identity.
"I will never say that something can be, I don't know, compared to the crime of the Third Reich, I will never say that there is something worse, it's an absolute evil.
"But, oddly enough, after decades, humanity has come up with something comparable, in terms of form, it was even recognized as an achievement in the discovery of the human essence, when for children, at their birth, countries at the legislative level prescribed the possibility of gender change,” she added.
Zakharova’s comments reflect Russia’s long-standing opposition to liberal gender and LGBTQ+ policies in Western countries, a stance that Moscow frequently frames as a defence of what it calls traditional values.