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Hungary Bans Trans People From Legally Changing Gender

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The Hungarian Parliament has voted to ban trans and gender diverse persons from changing the gender assigned to them at birth in official documents.

Rights organisations said that the new law puts transgender and intersex persons at considerable risk of harassment and violence. Prime Minister Victor Orban’s right-wing Fidesz party, in the midst of the COVID-19 health crisis, pushed for the change in law that was passed in the Parliament by 133 votes to 57 on Tuesday.

The legislation, Article 33, makes changes to the civil registry document that forms the basis for all legal identity documents for citizens in the country.

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