Wikimedia Commons Russia has banned people with "gender identity disorders" from driving, which was first reported by BBC.

A new decree signed on December 29 by Prime Minister Dimitry Medvedev delineates the conditions that disqualify people from driving, which implicitly includes people with "gender identity disorders" — a category which includes transgender and transsexual people.

For the most part, the conditions that disqualify people from driving listed in the decree are straightforward, including a long list of medical issues such as foot deformities.

But there is also an iffy section on "Mental and Behavioral disorders," which explicitly includes disorders such as schizophrenia, and implicitly bans people with "gender identity disorders" from driving.

The decree defines the "Mental and Behavioral disorders" issues by the "МКБ-10" — the World Health Organization's "ICD-10 Classification of Mental and Behavioral Disorders.

The "ICD-10" classification, which implicitly bans transsexual and transgendered people from driving. Government.ru

Under that classification is "gender identity disorders" which includes the following:

Transsexualism

Dual-role transvestism

Gender identity disorder of childhood

Other gender identity disorders