BARNAUL, Oct 27 Russia's first transgender politician, Yulia Aleshina, who headed the party branch » Civil Initiative» in the Altai Territory, told RIA Novosti that she was leaving politics. «I made a difficult decision: I'm leaving politics! Today, the State Duma adopted in the first reading a law banning LGBT propaganda. I have never engaged in such propaganda, but I can’t imagine how to continue to conduct public political activities, being an open transgender woman,» Aleshina said. Aleshina headed the branch of the Civil Initiative party more than a year ago. A little earlier, the politician officially changed her gender: before that she was Roman Alyoshin, but she always felt like a woman. d'Arc at the feminists
