President of “Public Information and Need of Knowledge” (PINK Armenia) NGO Mamikon Hovsepyan assures that the law on “Equal rights and equal opportunities for women and men” has nothing to do with sexual minorities. “Every man understands that the law is about equality between men and women, and as for the remaining scandals and hysteria, protests are Russian projects. All of these texts, which are now in circulation, can be found in stopgender.ru website. All countries that are in the phase of initialing or signing the Association Agreement are saying the same thing”, – said Mamikon Hovsepyan to Aravot.am. He believes that those complaining about this law are pro-Russian and guided by Russia. “The speculators of this law are actually against equality of men and women, they want women to have the status of a slave to men. Therefore, they are looking for dirt and words to manipulate and speculate. The hatred against sexual minorities is coming from the Soviet times, erroneous stereotypes and notions.”
According to the president of the NGO, those groups that are trying to add aggression and fear, to arouse hostility within the scandalous law, are just criminals. “They will not get consoled on removing the word gender because they are against equality, they want a man to rule over. “Gender is the role that we learn. A small child that is born, he is still not a man, he does not behave as a man, in the process he is learning from adults, father, brother as to how to behave himself, in other words he acquires the masculine gender. Now, these brain launderers try to distract people on the idea that a woman can become a man, and vice versa. They take everything and turn on transgenders. Transgender is a minority group who understand not in the lifetime, but by birth that their gender does not match the role that they consider theirs. But gender is a wide term and has nothing to do with sexual orientation that they are trying to distort. Transgenders understand since childhood that they do not accept their gender and body.”
As per Mamikon, there will be serious complications if the word gender is removed from the law. “There are gender stereotypes, gender discrimination, if the word gender is removed, how these phrases will be explained: a man woman stereotypes? The word gender has always been in the public documents and in the laws. It is not a novelty, simply the time came, it was an order that this hysteria has to start in Armenia, people’s heads need to be washed. They are fascinated with sex a lot, they related everything with sex. They are giving false information as if blowing condoms are taught in the European schools and thus teaching them how to use condoms. I am sorry, which full-aged man notices that blowing a condom shows how to use condoms. Now, they imagine homosexuals in the law on equality of rights between men and women.” The president of the NGO is sure that the complaints against obstreperous law will end in Putin’s order.
Arpine SIMONYAN
