未成年への同性愛「助長」禁止 ハンガリーで法案可決

【ブダペストＡＦＰ＝時事】ハンガリー議会は１５日、未成年に対する同性愛の「助長」行為を禁止する法改正案を可決した。この法改正案に対しては、性的少数者（ＬＧＢＴＱＩ）を抑圧するものだとの批判が上がっている。（写真はハンガリーの首都ブダペストの議会前で、未成年に対する同性愛の「助長」行為を禁ずる法改正案に抗議する人々）
　法改正は、右派オルバン・ビクトル首相が率いる政権が進める政策の一環で、実現すれば同性愛や性別移行に関する性教育や、ＬＧＢＴＱＩ団体の宣伝が事実上禁止されるほか、同性愛を助長するとみなされた映画に上映時間や視聴年齢の制限が課される可能性もある。
　オルバン政権は法改正について、小児性愛対策や未成年保護が目的と主張。だが反対派からは、表現の自由や子どもの権利を「深刻に制限する」ものだとの声が上がっている。
　議会前では１４日、５０００人以上が集まり、法改正案に抗議。ＬＧＢＴＱＩ団体は、ロシアで導入された類似の法律になぞらえ、法改正案を批判している。
　米国のジョー・バイデン政権はＬＧＢＴＱＩの権利を優先事項の一つとして掲げている。米国務省のジャリナ・ポーター報道官はハンガリーの法改正案について、表現の自由に関する「懸念を生む」ものであり、「民主主義社会では受け入れられない」制限を含んでいると指摘した。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】

〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2021/06/16-14:24）

Hungary's parliament on Tuesday passed legislation banning the promotion of homosexuality to minors in what critics have slammed as a crackdown on LGBTQI rights.
The legal amendments are the latest in a series of measures right-wing Prime Minister Viktor Orban's government says are aimed at fighting paedophilia and protecting children.
But critics claim the changes -- which effectively ban educational programmes and publicity of LGBTQI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex) groups -- would severely restrict freedom of expression and children's rights.
More than 5,000 people rallied outside parliament on Monday against the amendments, which LGBTQI groups have compared to similar legislation in Russia.
The legislation passed with 157 votes in favour and one vote against in the parliament controlled by Orban's Fidesz party.
The opposition boycotted the vote except for lawmakers from the nationalist Jobbik party who supported the changes.
In order to ensure... the protection of children's rights, pornography and content that depicts sexuality for its own purposes or that promotes deviation from gender identity, gender reassignment and homosexuality shall not be made available to persons under the age of 18, the legal text said.
Sexual education classes should not be aimed at promoting gender segregation, gender reassignment or homosexuality, it said.
It was not clear what punishments could be meted out for those seen as breaking the new legislation.
In Washington, where President Joe Biden has made LGBTQI rights a top priority, State Department spokeswoman Jalina Porter said the new law raises concerns about freedom of expression and included restrictions that have no place in democratic society.
The director of Amnesty International Hungary, David Vig, said that the law will expose people already facing a hostile environment to even greater discrimination.
He urged other EU member states to raise the issue with Hungary urgently to ensure that the EU is a safe place for LGBTI people.
There has already been reaction from elsewhere in the EU, with France's European Affairs Minister Clement Beaune saying his government would follow the issue closely and that we cannot let our fellow citizens think that on fundamental subjects Europe is 'a la carte'.
The EU's central tenets should be defended without weakness, he told reporters during a visit to Vienna.
French Green MEP Gwendoline Delbos-Corfield, a European Parliament rapporteur on Hungary, called the law an affront to European values and an attempt to use child protection as an excuse to attack LGBTQI rights.
She also urged other EU states to challenge Hungary at hearings scheduled later this month.
- 'Chilling effect' -
The legislation could mean that movies that some see as promoting homosexuality, such as Bridget Jones's Diary, Harry Potter or Billy Elliot, can only be shown at night with an 18-plus classification, broadcaster RTL Klub Hungary said.
Attila Kelemen was among thousands who protested against the amendments on Monday, saying it was getting more and more uncomfortable to live in Hungary not only for gays, but practically also for everybody.
To mix up homosexuality with sexual crimes is disgusting, the school psychologist, 23, told AFP.
The text of the law is very ambiguous and that is on purpose. We do not know the full consequences yet, Zsolt Szekeres of rights group Hungarian Helsinki Committee told AFP.
Even if it does not mean that a Gay Pride would be banned, it has a chilling effect on organisers... because they would be scared of the consequences and it gives an excuse to the police to initiate proceedings.
Advertising by companies such as Coca-Cola, which campaigned for gay acceptance in Hungary in 2019, could be banned, as could books dramatising homosexuality.
In recent years, Orban, who has ruled Hungary since 2010, has enacted a socially conservative policy agenda, shaping the EU member into what he calls a bastion against liberal ideologies.
Last December, parliament adopted a package of measures enshrining what the government sees as the traditional family, effectively banning adoption by same-sex couples.
In May 2020, a ban on legally changing one's gender came into force, with rights groups warning this would expose transgender Hungarians to discrimination.
In 2018 a government decree effectively banned universities from teaching courses on gender studies.