A law prohibiting the sharing of content portraying homosexuality and transgender fetishism to those under the age of 18 has been passed by Hungary’s National Assembly. The vote passed on Tuesday by a vote of 157-1. Amusingly, it seems that of 158 deputies only one is a shirt-lifter.

The law was included in a larger bill cracking down on paedophilia by creating a register of child sex offenders, implementing stricter punishments for child pornography, and barring paedophile offenders from jobs where they would encounter children. It also singled out the promotion of LGBT affairs in schools.

Sex education in schools must not be aimed at promoting homosexuality or changing gender, said Fidesz, the ruling party of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, in a press release following the vote.

Additionally, those under the age of 18 cannot be shown pornographic content, or any content, deemed as promoting homosexuality or transgenderism, with television shows, movies, and advertisements included. Television stations and streaming platforms will only be able to target such content to adults.

Though the bill was supported by members of the ruling Fidesz and ultra-nationalist Jobbik parties, opposition parties boycotted the vote in protest, while several so-called public-funded ‘civil rights’ groups including Amnesty International Hungary, the Hungarian LGBT Association, and Budapest Pride condemned the move, comparing Hungary to ‘autocratic states’ Russia and China, which have similar laws in place.

Last year, Hungary passed a bill prohibiting same-sex couples from adopting children. The passing of the law is yet another blow to Hungary’s rocky relationship with Brussels, and European Union officials have already begun to condemn it.

‘Using child protection as an excuse to target LGBTIQ people is damaging to all children in Hungary,’ said Gwendoline Delbos-Corfield, a French Green Party MEP who serves as the European Parliament rapporteur on the rule of law in Hungary.

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