Hungary passed its child protection law in June 2021, restricting the teaching of gender theory and the promotion of gender change procedures to minors in schools. Ever since its introduction, political figures and the mainstream media in the West have constantly been attacking the law, the Orbán administration, and Hungary.
The European Commission referred Hungary to the European Court of Justice in July 2022 for allegedly violating EU internal market rules and the fundamental rights of individuals with the legislation. France and Germany have recently joined the 13 other governments and the European Parliament, officially backing the punitive procedure. Pierre Karleskind, a French MEP from the centre-left ruling Renaissance party in France, made this announcement in a video posted to his Twitter page on 6 April.
In the video, Karleskind refers to the fact that in March 2021, the EP officially accepted a proposal declaring the European Union an ‘LGBTIQ freedom zone’. This was a measure taken in response to developments in Poland, another country often in the crosshair of left-wing pressure coming from the EU, where over 100 counties and municipalities declared themselves to be ‘LGBTIQ-free zones’.
6 April, when MEP Karleskind’s Twitter video was posted, was the deadline to officially join the proceedings against Hungary in the EU Court. Thus, the final list is complete, 15 countries and the European Parliament have done so.
Those 15 countries are: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Ireland, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, and Sweden, with France and Germany joining on the last day, as mentioned above.
Hungary Stands By Child Protection Law
Zoltán Kovács, Hungarian MP and Secretary of State for International Communication, responded to the new developments, also on Twitter.
He assured Hungarians that their government ‘will not back down on our Child Protection Act’
and will do everything to ‘stand by the unanimous will of 3.7 million Hungarians’.
As we wrote in our piece published earlier this week, in some Western countries, such as the United States and Canada, physicians are allowed to perform gender reassignment surgeries and hormone blocker therapies on minors, thus allowing them to make life-altering decisions at an unreasonably young age. The Hungarian government is committed to not letting that ever happen to its citizens, therefore it is not willing to allow even the showing of material promoting such procedures to underaged children in schools.
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