Wed Feb 15, 2023 – 10:29 am EST
(LifeSiteNews) — Hungary is on track for another clash with the European Union—and once again, the fight is over transgender ideology. In 2020, the Hungarian parliament passed a ban on changing one’s gender on identification, with the country’s Constitutional Court ruling the following year that the law does not apply retroactively, meaning that any person who applied to change their gender legally prior to May 29, 2020, were able to continue that process. Recently, however, the Constitutional Court upheld their previous ruling—and, implicitly, the ban—by rejecting a petitioner’s plea to have a 2021 application for a gender change.
The Constitutional Court cited a series of practical reasons, including the fact that someone’s sex is relevant in healthcare as well as in judicial or criminal proceedings. In response, the Hungarian LGBT group Háttér Society plans to subvert Hungarian sovereignty entirely by taking the case up to the European Court of Human Rights to take advantage of “an emerging norm across Europe to eliminate barriers to legal gender recognition, not create them as Hungary has.” According to the Háttér Society’s legal director Eszter Polgári: “The Hungarian government’s practice sanctioned by
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