While the United States forces taxpayers to fund such Punitive Psychiatry, including for children, the Duma in Russia voted to ban it and Putin signed it:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/24/vladimir-putin-signs-law-banning-gender-changes-in-russia
“Genital mutilation, castration, and hormones for those who suffer from Gender Dysphoria is Punitive Psychiatry.”
No, it’s a combination of quackery, child abuse, and zero population policy.
“Punitive psychiatry” is giving someone shock treatment because they didn’t vote for Putin. Which is what these people on Russia 1 are talking about.