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Hungary lawmakers approve bill to ban transgender people from legally changing gender

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Lawmakers in Hungary on Tuesday approved a bill that would prevent transgender and intersex people in the country from legally changing their gender.

The Associated Press reported the proposal passed in the Hungarian Parliament by a 133-57 vote margin with the support of members of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s Fidesz party.

The proposal is part of an omnibus bill that Deputy Prime Minister Zsolt Semjén introduced on March 31. The Hungarian Parliament the day before approved a controversial measure that gave Orbán even more power under the guise of combating the coronavirus pandemic in the country.

Transvanilla Transgender Association, a Hungarian trans advocacy group, in a statement said the bill “is contradictory to international and

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