In the former USSR attitudes towards LGBT is very different from the west and most people simply don't think about transgender individual. It's just not on their mind and they don't earn enough to care. The people who are transgender (transexual?) don't make a big fuss about it. Gender roles tend to be a lot more "stereotypical" than in the west. There are certain expectations from women and others from men and for the most people go with it (note: this doesn't have to a patriarchal model).
I also wouldn't read too much into this. Western countries have their own problems and so do former USSR republics.
As an addition, the only people who really care about trans issues in Russia are usually exceptional individuals who just parrot Western feminist and liberal rhetorhic without any care for how well their bitching and moaning about blackface fits here.
One comes to mind in particular, a girl under the nickname NixelPixel. She'd definitely have a thread here if someone Russian-speaking bothered enough to write up an OP as she's besides just mindlessly copying whatever the Western feminists think NixelPixel's also pretty spergy, in particular I remember a bit where a fan of her sent her a message asking her how to deal with the loss of a family member. NP herself was dealing with her dad dying brain cancer, and the fan had her boyfriend's mother die of cancer on the day she sent her message, and, probably figuring NixelPixel's a nice girl who could give some advice.
What NixelPixel chose to do is to post the private message on instagram or some other social media for all to see, and also add in some of her bitching.

It's a touch off-topic to go into this crazy creature preaching tolerance on one hand and going nuclear on a fan hoping to get advice on how to deal with loss on the other, but this should about sum up the Russian feminists for you. Besides Internet sperging they also Photoshop themselves on a Kremlin tower and pretend they really did make it there and hanged their poster with 'National idea - feminism' on it.
