The verb that changed in the text
Peter Magyar’s government on Monday submitted a bill that would drop from the 2021 child-protection add-on the ban on “promoting” or “displaying” homosexuality and gender transition to people under 18. In its place the text would cover material that can seriously impair a child’s physical, intellectual, emotional or moral development. That is the text Budapest has extended; it is not yet a statute.[1]
Magyar said the rules would apply regardless of sexual orientation and would align with EU regulations. In the same remarks he said the government would take an uncompromising stance against media content accessible to minors that promotes sexual violence, manipulation and exploitation. In one pan sits the deletion of the 2021 named ban; in the other sits a general developmental-harm clause. Which content falls under that clause stays invisible without an implementing definition after the vote.[1]
The European Court of Justice holding and the Pride gate
In April 2026 the European Court of Justice held that the 2021 law had violated the very identity of the bloc. After that ruling, Budapest police authorised Pride marches that had been shut under Orbán. Magyar ended Orbán’s 16-year rule in the April election. The bill takes the sentence the European Court of Justice named out of the draft statute; the text has not yet become law.[1]
Whether the table moved, or only the chairs, cannot be said without a parliament adoption vote. One reading is that Budapest has extended a compliance text to the European Court of Justice holding. The other is that a general-harm clause could bring the old ban back through another door. The balance is read from whether the bill becomes law, more than from the draft wording alone.[1]