THE BOUNDARIES OF GENDER TOLERANCE IN THE MODERN SOCIETY AND LEGAL STATE (REVIEW).

The paper highlights the features of differentiation of the following concepts: «sex», «gender», DSD and Gender incongruence. Such criteria of a person's sex as psychological and social gender in the aspect of a person's right to gender self-identification are distinguished. The case law of the European Court of Human Rights on guaranteeing the right to gender identity is under study.

CONVERSION THERAPY BANS IN NATIONAL LEGISLATIONS AROUND THE GLOBE.

The article summarizes the data on the number of conversion therapy legal bans aimed at changing sexual orientation and gender identity in countries around the globe; the content and the form of such prohibitions, the scope of their action by territorial criterion and the nature of the prohibition itself are analyzed; the draft laws, which are intended to legalize such bans in the national and territorial regime are studied; the thematic case law of individual countries is partly examined; countries where conversion therapy is promoted and explicitly authorized by public authorities are considered. According to the results of the study of more than half a hundred legal documents, the information obtained is distributed and organized into the following categories: national and regional prohibition of conversion therapy, direct and non-direct prohibition of conversion therapy; ban in different parts of the world. The content highlights the characteristics of the existing prohibitions, such as the name of the delict; year of entry into force of the relevant legal act; prohibition of sexual orientation and/or gender identity activities; the circle of persons subjected to the prohibition; the circle of persons protected by the prohibition; peculiarities.