Hungary’s Viktor Orban Strikes Gender Studies as an Academic Discipline
In an effort to restore curricular and administrative sanity to university education, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and his Fidesz Party have passed legislation to abolish Gender Studies as an area of official study.
Hungary’s Deputy Prime Minister Zsolt Semjen has stated that such programs have no business in universities as they representan ideology, not a science with a market profile close to zero.
Similarly, Orban’s Chief of staff Gergely Gulyas said,”The Hungarian government is of the clear view that people are born either men or women. They lead their lives the way they think best [and] the Hungarian state does not wish to spend public funds on education in this area.”