Public morality as an object of administrative and legal protection from propaganda of non-traditional sexual relationships and (or) preferences and gender reassignment

The article deals with problematic aspects of the legal interpretation of the concept «public morality», which covers the state of a certain set of groups of public relations that are the object of administrative and legal protection from propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations and (or) preferences, gender reassignment. The author’s approach to understanding public morality is proposed, which allows summarizing existing scientific opinions regarding its content as a legal category. The author’s definition of the concept «moral order» is formulated in the article. The relevance of establishing regional public councils for the protection of morality and expert commissions for the evaluation of information containing data about non-traditional sexual relations and (or) preferences, gender reassignment is substantiated.