The Orthodox St. Tikhoniv Humanitarian University (PSTU) refused to issue a diploma with a new name to a student who decided to change her gender during her studies.

This was reported by the pro-Kremlin propaganda state agency TARS.

According to the rector of PSTU Archpriest Volodymyr Vorobyov, the reason for refusing to issue a diploma to the student was the lack of information about her baptism in her new status.

"Our university is Orthodox, we accept baptized people. You know that in baptism a person is given a name and under this name we know him and teach him. And now that she has changed her name, a question arises , and the one she calls (instead of herself) - who is he, what kind of person, baptized - not baptized? Did we teach her? No, we did not teach such a person, we do not know such a person. How can we give her a diploma , a diploma of an Orthodox university?"

said the rector.

Vorobyov also clarified that the Orthodox Church categorically opposes gender change and the Orthodox University cannot support it either.

"These are unnatural affairs, why should we be involved in this? We consider it as some kind of provocation. The Church does not want to participate in this in any way, and I cannot do otherwise as the rector of the university. I will join according to my conscience. Not because I I want to make trouble for someone - I have to defend my university, you understand? But what if they say: the Orthodox university recognizes all such cases?!"

- noted Vorobyov.

Answering a question about whether the student who decided to change her gender is a religious person, the rector of PSTSU noted that when she was accepted to study, she was Orthodox, but then, apparently, "something happened" to her.

"Probably, it is better to give the diploma of an Orthodox university to an Orthodox person. That was a girl, and now who do we have to give the diploma to?"

- concluded the clergyman.

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