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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is taking another step to exclude LGBT * people from social life: his right-wing conservative government wants to include definitions of fatherhood and gender in the country’s constitution that are directed against homosexuals and transgender people. According to the draft presented by Justice Minister Judit Varga to parliament on Tuesday, the constitution will say that “the mother is a woman and the father is a man.”
It should also be stipulated that a person’s gender should be defined only as the time of their birth, a regulation that is directed against transgender people. Since May, Hungary has prohibited registering a sex change with the authorities.
According to the Reuters news agency, the government wrote that the reason for the constitutional amendment was that it had to protect children from “new modern ideological trends in the Western world … which endanger the healthy development of children. “. According to the draft constitutional amendment, children should be guaranteed an “education based on the values of the Christian culture of Hungary”.
Ongoing dispute with the EU over the Charter of Fundamental Rights
The project was presented at a time when Hungary is already in a dispute with the European Union. It is about safeguarding the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU. Among other things, the charter provides for the protection of sexual minorities.
Under the so-called rule of law mechanism, which will be linked to the new seven-year EU budget, payments to member states could be reduced in the future if they violate the Charter of Fundamental Rights.
According to information from the AFP news agency, Orbán threatened to veto the budget in a letter to the EU Commission if the rule of law mechanism was maintained. The budget must be approved unanimously by the member states. Both Hungary and Poland have been criticized in the EU for violating the rule of law for years.
