Russia is facing a ‘transgender epidemic’ fueled by propaganda and foreign funding, Olga Bukhanovskaya has said A distinguished Russian psychiatrist has classified transgender identity as a mental illness during a major medical congress in Russia. Speaking at the 18th Congress of Psychiatrists of Russia last week, Olga Bukhanovskaya, chief physician of the Phoenix Medical and Rehabilitation Scientific Center in Rostov-on-Don, introduced the concept of a “transgender spectrum disorder.” “If people now use the nice-sounding phrase ‘autism spectrum disorder’ then we can say ‘transgender spectrum disorder’ and all of these mental illnesses fall under it,” Bukhanovskaya said. The proposed category includes five distinct conditions: “homosexuality,”   “fetishistic transvestism,” a term describing cross-dressing linked to sexual arousal, “personality disorders,”   “schizotypal disorder,” and “schizophrenia with periodic effeminacy,” which refers to intermittent feminine behavior or traits in men.…