The Hungarian parliament passed a law on Tuesday that will ban the dissemination of any content deemed to promote homosexuality in schools.
Specifically, the passed proposal involves the prohibition of discussions on LGBTQ issues, including gender change and homosexuality, to students under the age of 18 and was tacked onto a broadly supported bill that imposes harsher penalties on pedophilia, making it difficult to defeat.
The legislation comes ahead of next year’s election, where right-wing nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban of the ruling Fidesz party will seek a fourth consecutive term.
The provision to ban school talks on LGBTQ issues was widely condemned by the opposition and human rights activists who asserted the combined legislation wrongly conflates homosexuality with pedophilia.
"Using child protection as an excuse to target LGBTQ people is damaging to all children in Hungary," stated Gwendoline Delbos-Corfield, a member of the European parliament.
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