Hungary has launched a fresh attack on LGBT+ people by rewriting the constitution to stop same-sex couples adopting. The government’s proposed change to the constitution says that in a child-parent relationship, ‘the mother is a woman, the father is a man’.
The move would limit adoption to married heterosexuals – banning same-sex couples and trans people. Meanwhile the Judicial Committee of the Parliament started plans to abolish Hungary’s most important equality body – the Equal Treatment Authority (ETA).
It has stood up to the government on LGBT+ issues while others haven’t. And in April the ETA criticized Hungary’s plan to ban legal gender recognition.