L-R: MEP András László, women’s rights activist Kellie-Jay Keen, MCC Brussels Head of Communication John O’Brien, Canadian sociologist Ashley Frawley
“It is essential that we protect Hungarian families from the spread of gender ideology”, emphasized András László, Fidesz Member of the European Parliament (MEP), on Tuesday in Brussels.
The politician, together with the think tank MCC Brussels, organized a conference on the European Union’s gender ideology at the European Parliament. The other two guest speakers at the conference, Canadian sociologist and visiting research fellow at MCC Brussels Ashley Frawley and British women’s rights activist Kellie-Jay Keen (better known as Posie Parker), shared their experiences of the social consequences of gender ideology in Anglo-Saxon countries.
That is where you can best see the devastating impact this ideology has on children, women, and families,”
he said.
The politician said that the European Commission had recently published its LGBTQ strategy for the period 2026-2030, which, in his opinion, contains a number of elements that violate the sovereignty of member states and interfere with family policy decisions.
Family policy is clearly a national competence, yet we see that Brussels, invoking the principle of free movement, is trying to impose the most liberal regulations on member states,”
he said.
He added that the European Commission and the European Court of Justice are trying to develop an interpretation of the law whereby
if a member state recognizes same-sex marriage or gender reassignment, it would be mandatory for all other member states to accept it as well.
“This is a completely absurd idea,” he added.
The MEP cited as an example the Hungarian child protection law passed in 2021, against which the European Commission filed a lawsuit in the European Court of Justice, even though the issue falls within national jurisdiction and the Hungarian people supported the law in a referendum in 2022.
According to András László, the Brussels institutions are also trying to exert influence through the courts and civil society organizations. The European Commission has provided “record amounts” of support to LGBTQ organizations through the Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values (CERV) program, and is already anticipating that in the next EU budget cycle—expected to be called the AGORA EU program—it will allocate even more money for these purposes.
The MEP believes the European Parliament and then the European Commission are exerting the most pressure on member states to extend LGBTQ rights, while the European Council is much more restrained because everyone there is aware that family policy is a national competence.
Fidesz MEP András László cited the example of the United States, where, in his view, since the beginning of the year Donald Trump’s administration had withdrawn a number of measures supporting “woke” ideology, including at universities and in the armed forces.
It would be good if the European Union followed this example, but unfortunately we are seeing the opposite,”
he said.
The representative emphasized that voters supported the Hungarian Child Protection Act with more than 3.6 million votes, so there should be no compromise on this issue of sovereignty. “Just as we stand firm on the issue of migration pressure, we cannot compromise on this either,” he said.
He also drew attention to the fact that a report on the rule of law in Hungary may be on the agenda of the European Parliament’s plenary session in November. In his view, the document goes far beyond the Article 7 procedure and unjustifiably criticizes several national competences, such as foreign policy, the judiciary, and family policy. “They want to punish Hungary because it refuses to fall in line with Brussels’ pro-war, pro-migration and gender ideology policies,” he said.
He added that the rapporteurs are not even concerned that they are describing factual errors and raising contentious issues that have already been agreed upon and settled by the Hungarian government and the European Commission. They have swept all of these off the table.
The European Parliament’s rapporteur, Dutch MEP Tineke Strik, and the members of the grand coalition are not interested in what the reality is, what the facts are. The entire report is so far from reality that it is beyond repair,”
he said.
Fact
Canadian sociologist and visiting research fellow at MCC Brussels Ashley Frawley emphasized the European Union’s lack of competence in the field of education. “Yet it funds a vast network of NGOs to embed gender identity ideology into curricula. While it is not technical ‘EU activity’, it is clear attempt to circumvent any democratic control, she pointed out.
British women’s rights activist Kellie-Jay Keen believes that the ideology of transgenderism has taken hold in many people’s minds. “The only antidote to this is the freedom to speak – to say what you see and what you know to be true,” she underlined.
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Via MTI; Featured photos: X/MCC Brussels
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