According to a report from Reuters, the proposed legislation is looking to ban “content promoting gender change or homosexuality” within the school curriculum.
The ban would also apply to media advertisements. The bill, which activists have compared to Russia’s “gay propaganda” law, could head to Hungary’s parliament next week for a vote.
Háttér Társaság, an LGBTQ+ rights group, released a statement regarding the bill and its harmful proposal. “The new legislation proposed by Fidesz would seriously curb freedom of speech and children’s rights, with its new proposal, similar to the Russian Progoganda law,” they said. “42% of Hungarian LGBTQ+ people have already thought about suicide, 30% have tried it.