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Hungary’s parliament adopted the 15th amendment to the Fundamental Law on Monday, with 140 votes in favour and 21 against.
The amendment, proposed by the ruling parties, was designed to confirm that gender at birth is biologically determined, either male or female. Under the new changes, the state must ensure the protection of that “natural order” and prevent any endeavours to suggest there are opportunities to change sex at birth.
The preamble to the legislation said the fixed nature of the biological gender will ensure the healthy development of society and help maintain fundamental norms of the community. Hungarian law refuses to recognise changes to one’s sex at birth, thus preserving the stability of the family as an institution and social order, it added.
The amendment enshrines in the constitution “the protection of children’s bodily, spiritual and moral development, and the right to children’s identity according to their gender at birth” as a fundamental right of paramount importance, enjoying proportionate protection. This precedes any other right with the exception of the right to human life, it adds.
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Also under the amendment, the Hungarian citizenship of dual citizens may be suspended for definite periods of time, but such a suspension cannot be applied collectively to groups of citizens.
The amendment also enshrines the right to use cash in the constitution. According to the legislation, retaining cash transactions is the only way to prevent the economy from becoming vulnerable to electronic banking systems, which are prone to failure for technical or economic reasons. The preamble says that the inclusion of those stipulations in the constitution will ensure the option to pay with cash for everybody, thus preventing opportunities from financial segregation.
Meanwhile, the new changes outlaw the production, abuse, distribution and promotion of drugs, aimed at reinforcing the Hungarian state’s commitment to protecting public safety, healthy lifestyles and public order.
Another change stipulates that prosecutors, with the exception of the chief prosecutor, can continue working until their 70th birthday.
Under current regulations, the government has the authority to pass decrees, suspend certain laws or deviate from them, as well as take extraordinary measures in a special legal order. After Monday’s amendment takes effect, the government will have the authority to suspend or deviate from some laws under martial law or in an emergency without special authorisation by parliament. In a state of danger, however, the government will need the approval of parliament’s two-thirds majority to do so for a given period of time.
In changes related to localities, the amended constitution stipulates that the right of movement should not impinge on the right of local communities to uphold their identity. According to the preamble, the new passages would ensure protection to those communities that seek to preserve their way of life, traditions or social structure, and allow them to define the size of their community.
New passages concerning the special legal order and prosecutors will take effect on January 1 next year, but the rest of the stipulations will become effective the day after their publication.
The new changes make total sense. Law and order should be rule of the day. All precious, talented Hungarian children must be protected; they are descendants of Attila the Hun after all.
I mentioned this earlier.
Hungary has a pretty new President, right? Why? The last one was Fidesz.
What happened?
When God made man he made them male and female. God does not makes mistakes and did not make lgbtq+. Those are man made mental illnesses. Adults tiring to dance naked or half naked in front of children fall into the same mental illness category.
Religions and gods are made up fairy tale stories. Not sure which one of the hundreds of Gods humans worship around the world that you referring to, but nope – not one of these gods ever created anything. Societys rules should not be based on made up stories but on evidence based facts that are proven by science. Hungary is taking so many steps backwards with these conservative religious leader.
It’s a tragic state of affairs when a basic scientific fact has to be codified into law because there are concerted, aggressive efforts to deny it and subvert it.
Plus, and this is a genuine question, if sex is a social construct, then surely so is age, nationality, ethnicity, height, professional qualifications, employment, etc. These are all concepts devised by humans (almost entirely straight white males, at that) so if I can wake up one morning, declare myself as a woman, and be accepted by law as such, then there is no reason I can equally not declare myself to be quadriplegic, 6-year-old, black lesbian nuclear physicist who shares “her” body with an 80-year-old Mongolian train driver. I must then surely be able to be enrolled in an elementary school, operate machinery in a nuclear power plant, drive a passenger train, collect disability welfare and social security, and so on. Give me ONE plausible reason why not!
Orbánistan is a dictatorial state. Period.
The government used the LGBTQ community as a smokescreen to pass laws to give themselves the ability suppress freedom of assembly for everyone for any cause. Fidesz needed to give themselves this ability to suppress public demonstrations in the run up to the 2026 election. They are desparate and will use facial recognition technology and issue fines of up to 200,000 forints. There will be criminal charges against many Fidesz politicians for their corruption once they are out of office and now they will do anything to keep power.
Mario, if you hate Hungary, just leave. If you live outside Hungary, are you scared to critique your government???
Thank you Larry for the only sensible, realistic and constructive comment out of the 8 I read.