Russia is facing a ‘transgender epidemic’ fueled by propaganda and foreign funding, Olga Bukhanovskaya has said A top Russian psychiatrist has classified homosexuality and transgender identity as mental illnesses 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.” “