Prague, Czech Republic: During the discussion of a controversial new law in Hungary regarding LGBTQ content, Czech President Milos Zeman on Sunday called Transgender People “disgusting” in an interview with CNN Prima News.
Zeman defends Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban for an angry international reaction to new law and said that interference in the internal affairs of the European European Union (EU) was a dirty political error.
“I see no reason to disagree with him,” Zeman said.
“I can understand gay, lesbian and so on.
But do you know who I don’t understand at all? These transgender people,” he said then to CNN, describing the transgender as “intrinsic disgusting for me”.
Zeman’s comments come when several cities around the world celebrate pride and the parade aims to get visibility for the LGBTQ community and mark the riots of Stonewall 1969.
Hungary law prohibits all materials and education programs for children who are considered to be promoting homosexuality, gender rear assignments and concepts Sexuality that deviates from someone who is late at birth.
Has fulfilled fierce criticism of other UE members.
Last week, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said that Hungary “did not have a place” in the EU after passing controversial bills.
“For me, Hungary has no place in the EU again,” Rutte said to reporters before attending the EU summit in Brussels.
European Commission President Ursula Von Der Leyen last week criticized the bill as “clear” discriminatory, said “against all values, European Union’s fundamental values, and this is a dignity of humans, it is equality, and whether human fundamental rights.” Hungarian leader Victor Orban, however, has maintained new laws, CNN reported.
“It’s not about homosexuals, it’s about children and parents.
I am a warrior for those rights.
I am a fighter of freedom in the communist regime,” Orban said.
Last Tuesday, 14 of the 27 EU countries had declared their “deep worries” in law in a joint declaration initiated by Belgium.
Citing the ILGA-Europe advocacy group, CNN reported that local rights activists were afraid of the Czech Republic to take part in the tighter neighboring route such as Hungary and Poland.
According to the December 2020 report by the European Commission on racism and intolerance, Czech residents were required to undergo reassignment and gender sterilization as an official transition requirement.