Hungarian legislature withdraws from amendment on complaints against LGBTQIA+

Approved by Parliament in April, the amendment expanded the scope of a 2014 law, including new areas about which citizens could make anonymous reports, in order to “protect the Hungarian way of life”.

In these new fields, there was “any questionmarriage”, defined by the 2019 Constitution as the union of a man and a woman.

It also encouraged the reporting of those who deny “children’s right to an identity that corresponds to their birth sex.”

Human rights organizations denounced that this text completed a legal arsenal to fuel hatred against sexual and gender minorities.

Hungarian President Katalin Novák vetoed the law and returned it to Parliament, considering that the imprecise text “did not effectively protect the values ​​established in the Constitution”.

Today, deputies approved a modified version of the text.

An EU member since 2004 and part of central Europe, Hungary was one of the most liberal countries in the region. Homosexuality was decriminalized in the early 1960s, and same-sex civil unions were recognized in 1996.

Since 2018, Prime Minister Viktor Orban's government has been gradually changing legislation in order to usher in a “new illiberal era” in Hungary.

Since then, research on gender, sex changes in civil registration and adoption by homosexual couples have been banned.

In 2021, Hungary banned matters related to sex change or homosexuality in the presence of minors. This incident led the European Commission to open infringement proceedings against Hungary, supported by 15 of the 27 European Union (EU) countries.

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