nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/5317b56e874ccb5f DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 250523s2025||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/5317b56e874ccb5f doi eng 342 23 Mészáros, Gábor Author aut (orcid)0000-0002-3424-1350 We the Bugs - Constitutionalizing “Enemies” Mészáros, Gábor Verfassungsblog 2025-05-23 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier On April 14, 2025, the Hungarian parliament passed the 15th Amendment to the Fundamental Law, triggering mass protest across Budapest. Amongst its most far-reaching provisions is the constitutional entrenchment of binary sex. Read alongside a reworded Article XVI, which affirms that “every child has the right to the protection and care necessary for his or her proper physical, mental, and moral development”, these provisions establish a new hierarchy of fundamental rights, placing child protection above all others, including the right to peaceful assembly. These changes may now lend formal constitutional legitimacy to discriminatory legislation seeking to ban Pride Parades.  CC BY-SA 4.0 Abusive Constitutionalism constitutional amendment Europe Hungary LGBTQ+ rights Pride Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/we-the-bugs-hungary-orban-lgbtq/ raw object