Hungary's Parliament has approved legislation that bans transgender people from changing the gender they were assigned at birth on official documents.
Critics claim the government rushed through the law at a time when mass protests are not allowed due to the coronavirus outbreak.
But Hungarian government officials disagree. They suggested that the law clarifies the legal order in Hungary. It is not in any way discriminatory or prevents people from expressing whatever gender identity they may wish to present, Budapest says. "The state's decision ... to register children's biological sex in their birth certificates does not affect men's and women's right to experience and exercise their identities as they wish freely," stressed the government's communications office....