However, in Ruzzia they need children. The country is in a full economic decline so they need Ruzzians making more little Ruzzians not doing gay stuff. This also is ideologically interesting for the Kremlin as it passes as a "diference" with "the West"... you know there's a word "Gayrope" so Gay Europe. The Krenlim taps on the prejudices to convince their own people that their system (Putin's system) is superior because it is more "manly".
It is of course a total stink.
Yes, and speaking of "Gayrope", for many Russians the cause of these problems is the democracy in Europe. The Putin's ideology manipulatively states that Russia needs a Tzar, not the Western model. Such things are not strictly said by Putin, but they are implied, at least unconsciously.
Some Russians use the word "dermocracy" which means "shitocracy" ("dermo" is "shit" in Russian). As far as I know, only in German 80 years ago there was a similar word - "Systemzeit".
But if the Russians see that with democracy people can vote against transgenders in big sports, they will experience cognitive dissonance.