Slovakia passes amendment against LGBTQ+ rights

A recent amendment concerning LGBTQ+ rights has passed successful Slovakia, arsenic it officially stipulates that from present connected lone the 2 biological genders will beryllium legally recognized.

The amendment passed successful the Slovak parliament last Friday. It includes measures specified arsenic the ceremonial constitution of a “gender binary” and stricter requirements for same-sex couples wishing to follow children — making adoption practically intolerable for them.

“There are 2 genders, antheral and female, determined astatine birth,” Fico stated successful January erstwhile the amendment was introduced.

“Gender cannot beryllium changed but for superior reasons, according to procedures that volition beryllium defined by law,” Fico added.

Hungary has adopted a akin stance.

After the vote, Michal Simecka, person of the strongest absorption enactment successful parliament, Progressive Slovakia, said that the amendment “will harm the radical of the state and volition telephone into question Slovakia’s spot successful the EU and its ineligible framework.”