On this year’s Transgender Day of Visibility, the Hungarian government tabled legislation which would end legal gender recognition for trans and intersex people in Hungary, as part of a wider emergency Covid response.
The ruling Fidesz party proposed on Tuesday to change the law so that birth, marriage and death certificates show "sex at birth" - reversing a policy that allowed trans people to change their legal sex to match the gender in which they live. Many international human rights organisations and LGBT civil society groups have condemned the proposed law. It is unknown the exact timing for the vote at this stage.
More information below:
Joint letter to Prime Minister Orbán from ILGA-Europe, TGEU and OII Europe: https://oiieurope.org/letter-to-hungarian-prime-minister-viktor-orban-in-regards-to-article-33-of-the-proposed-omnibus-bill-2020/.
Letter from UN Independent Expert on protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity; the Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health; the Special Rapporteur on the right to privacy and the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences: https://spcommreports.ohchr.org/TMResultsBase/DownLoadPublicCommunicationFile?gId=25172.
Statement from the European Parliament’s LGBTI Intergroup: https://lgbti-ep.eu/2020/04/02/latest-move-by-fidesz-is-a-deliberate-attack-against-the-hungarian-trans-community/ (EN) and (HU) .
Hungarian news website index.hu: https://index.hu/english/2020/04/01/hungary_gender_at_birth_transgender_rights/.
Statement from Hungarian trans organisation Transvanilla: http://transvanilla.hu/home/news/hungarian-government-bans-legal-gender-recognition.
Statement from the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Dunja Mijatović: https://www.facebook.com/CommissionerHR/posts/1512688642240374.
Statement from Hungarian NGOs (in Hungarian): https://budapestpride.hu/hirek/vonjak-vissza-a-transznemueket-ellehetetlenito-torvenyjavaslatot.
Early Day Motion tabled by Stephen Farry MP: https://edm.parliament.uk/early-day-motion/56887/emergency-powers-in-hungary.
ILGA Europe’s Drop 33 Social Media Campaign: https://twitter.com/hashtag/drop33?src=hashtag_click.