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Czech President Milos Zeman calls transgender people 'disgusting'
Czech President Milos Zeman has said he finds transgender people "disgusting", while appearing to support a new Hungarian law banning educational programmes and material for children which the government considers to be promoting homosexuality or gender change.Asked about the law passed earlier this month by Hungarian politicians, he told CNN Prima: "If you undergo a sex-change operation you are basically committing a crime of self-harm."Every surgery is a risk and these transgender people to me are disgusting."Hungary has faced condemnation over alleged human rights abuses, discrimination against migrants and limits on freedom of the press in recent years.The new law has been strongly criticised by opposition parties at home, rights groups