Following the Pride Parade in Budapest, which saw record turnout, the Hungarian government appears to be comfortable with its ban on the event, pointing to polls that back their position.
The Prime Minister’s Secretary of State for Parliament and Strategy, Balázs Orbán, wrote that he believes that the left is making this mistake again, supporting an ideology rejected by a majority of the Hungarian public. He pointed to opinion polls that show a majority also wanted a ban on the Pride Parade.
He wrote on Facebook that even according to Publicus, which is not known for supporting the Hungarian government’s position, more people oppose the Pride Parade than support it.
He also noted that according to the Nézőpont Institute, the majority approve of restricting the LGBTQ parade in order to protect children.
As Remix News wrote before the Pride Parade in an opinion piece, this outlet argued that the ban on the parade may play well with the Hungarians, but it would only add to the conflict between Budapest and the EU. In addition, restricting the parade would not play out well, as it would come across as authoritarian if action was taken and weak if no action was taken against the participants.
Viktor Orbán appeared to opt for de-escalation in the end, letting the Pride Parade move forward without intervention. The crowd was undoubtedly inflated by a large turnout from foreigners from other EU countries, many of whom traveled to Budapest for the event.
The Hungarian prime minister thus avoided any nasty confrontation involving police arresting participants. In addition, his clear opposition to the Parade appears to be supported by Hungarians, if the polls are accurate.
The prime minister’s advisor also pointed to an Ipsos survey, which was conducted by pollsters outside the country, showing that only 30 percent of Hungarians support LGBT issues being part of the public discourse, and this proportion is decreasing further.
In short, the polling shows there is a very large divergence between the issue of LGBT in public and within schools between the West and East of Europe, with countries like Romania having similar views on the issue.
Balázs Orbán wrote: “It doesn’t matter how many Brussels politicians and international activists come to demonstrate in Budapest. It doesn’t matter how many condemnatory statements Brussels issues or how many times Greta Thunberg, who is destined to be a political atomic bomb, is dropped on Budapest, the Hungarian people will make the decision about their own lives.”
He stated that “the Hungarian government represents what the majority of Hungarians want: that LGBTQ propaganda should not be part of our everyday lives, that instead we protect our children, preserve the family, and organize society along clear values.”
He further stated that the left can continue marching with the LGBT flag, but that Hungarians will continue to reject it.
“Yesterday, the opposition also presented the future it intends for Hungary. We wish you more good marches under the rainbow flag – but we do not ask for it!” he wrote.
Notably, there are growing trends within Western liberal countries across Pride Parades, especially due to lewd scenes, such as naked men walking in front of children in large numbers. In addition, public activists such as J.K. Rowling have come out against trans women, saying they are actually biological men who have no place in women’s prisons, on women’s sports teams, and in other areas of life that she says should be reserved for women.
In 2023, she wrote: “I’m concerned about the huge explosion in young women wishing to transition and also about the increasing numbers who seem to be detransitioning (returning to their original sex), because they regret taking steps that have, in some cases, altered their bodies irrevocably, and taken away their fertility,.”
“Most people probably aren’t aware – I certainly wasn’t, until I started researching this issue properly – that ten years ago, the majority of people wanting to transition to the opposite sex were male. That ratio has now reversed. The UK has experienced a 4400% increase in girls being referred for transitioning treatment. Autistic girls are hugely overrepresented in their numbers,” she continued.
Such positions are becoming mainstream in many Western countries. For example, over two-thirds of people in the United States back banning trans men from women’s sports teams in the United States, according to Pew Research, with opposition growing in recent years.
Balázs Orbán believes Hungary is ahead of the curve on this issue. He wrote in another Facebook post that he had been to many Western countries around the world, and he had seen how much damage “gender ideology imposed by a few ill-intentioned and many well-intentioned but misled people” had done. He said that he was proud of Hungary’s stance on these issues.
“We recognized the danger before other countries and successfully averted it. We rejected LGBTQ propaganda in a referendum when it was just beginning to rage elsewhere. Since then, resistance to woke ideologies in the West has been growing, and masses are beginning to realize that it is not a well-intentioned, nice, rainbow-colored cutesy thing to do, but a virus of the mind that hides serious dangers and can cripple an entire generation in its thinking,” he wrote.
As for other Western countries, he said, “the moment will come there too when the woke ideology will collapse like a house of cards.”
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