Russia has passed another law targeted at sexual minorities.

Although it covers other people with “mental disorders,” the law prevents people who are transgender or who have non-traditional sexual identies from driving.

The BBC reports the law hopes to lower the number of car accidents in Russia and tightens control on who receives driver’s licenses. Human rights groups, attorneys and psychiatrists have called the ban discriminatory.

Valery Evtushenko of the Russian Psychiatric Association told the BBC Russian service he fears the new ban will prevent people from approaching doctors about their mental issues in lieu of losing their driving privileges.

The Association of Russian Lawyers for Human Rights condemned the new law and asked Russia’s Constitutional Court to review it.

However, the law has its supporters. The Professional Drivers Union favored the law, saying: "We have too many deaths on the road, and I believe toughening medical requirements for applicants is fully justified.” They did add that non-professional drivers should have such strict restrictions.

According to the Guardian, “sexual deviants” include fetishists, voyeurs, and transvestites. They also include pedophiles and sado-masochists in the list.

The law, signed into effect at the end of last year by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, did not become public until this week. Officials hope the law will decrease the number of road car accidents that account for 30,000 deaths each year.

Yet, some struggle to correlate bad driving with sexual expression and preference.

“I don’t understand why, for example, fetishists, kleptomaniacs or transsexuals should be banned from driving a car… I think this is a violation of the rights of Russian citizens,” wrote Yelena Masyuk, a member of the Kremlin’s human rights council.

Other human rights organizations and bodies like the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights decried Russia’s actions.

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Similarly the U.S.-based Human Rights Campaign, an LGBT lobby, also denounced Russia’s new ban targeting transgender people and others.

“Restricting transgender people from obtaining drivers licenses is simply another example of the Russian government’s increased campaign of persecution and discrimination against its LGBT population,” said Jean Freedberg, Deputy Director of HRC Global, in a press release.