Just days before the 31st Budapest Pride, Hungary’s Defence Minister, Romulusz Ruszin-Szendi, came under fire after suggesting that people who are “not at peace with themselves” (transgender military applicants) should not be entrusted with weapons, prompting a sharp response from Amnesty International Hungary.
Hungarian defence minister on transgender applicants
Speaking in an interview with Kontroll, a media outlet close to the ruling Tisza Party, Ruszin-Szendi discussed gender roles, military suitability and recruitment within the Hungarian Armed Forces. During the conversation, he referred to a previous case involving a transgender person who had applied to join the military.
The minister stressed that the armed forces do not discriminate between men and women, provided they are capable of carrying out their assigned duties. He added that, in some cases, female soldiers are required, as in certain Middle Eastern cultures, only women may conduct body searches on other women.
According to Ruszin-Szendi, every applicant undergoes thorough medical and psychological assessments before being accepted into military service. He argued that questions of gender identity do not present a systemic challenge for the armed forces, as fitness for service is determined on professional grounds.
Ruszin-Szendi’s remarks prompt Amnesty International criticism
However, when recalling the case of the transgender applicant, the minister made a remark that has since drawn widespread criticism. “If someone is not at peace with themselves, then I think it is quite difficult to put a weapon in their hands,” he said.
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Amnesty International Hungary rejected the implication behind the statement, arguing that transgender people are not “confused” about themselves and that it is both false and exclusionary to suggest they are less capable of serving their country because of their gender identity.
The human rights organisation said such comments reinforce harmful stereotypes about transgender people and unfairly call into question their ability to perform public service.
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He is 100% correct.
A man being convinced he is a woman is scientifically, logically, and even philosophically no different to a 40-year-old being convinced he is four years old, or a Filipino man being convinced he is a black African, or an able-bodied man being convinced he is paraplegic, etc. Or indeed a 40-year-old, able-bodied Filipino man being convinced there are three different people living inside of him: a four-year old kid, a black African lesbian, and a paraplegic Argentinian nuclear physicist.
No difference whatsoever.
Such individuals, and I don’t mean this pejoratively, are not right in the head. They need help, not a gun.
Your probably being serious. Which is a big problem because your comment is the dumbest thing I’ve ever read. Our sex differences happen because of hormones but we all begin the same. It’s only hormones that cause us to develop one way or the other. Comparing a person physically altering their body in that way to someone thinking they are 4 is beyond retarded. There’s no way for you to change your body physically to look 4 when your 40. I think your just trying to feel cool since transgender people are literally the last group of people is acceptable to pick on. Really stupid take tho dumbest I’ve read yet
I think it turns you on how a guy in disguise molests little children, doesn’t it, you pervert.
God bless this wise man.
Dear Steiner and Drost.
Steiner, it has been a long time since I have read any nonsense from you. But what you writing now is not worth reading and defies all imagination. As for Drost, the fact you are going along with this nonsense makes matters even worse.
I am glad that you are saying this, and not someone in their right mind.
Major medical and psychological organizations, such as the American Psychiatric Association and the World Health Organization, agree that being transgender is not a medical or mental health condition. It is considered a natural variation of human diversity. Major global health and scientific organizations recognize transgender identity as a valid aspect of human diversity. Being transgender—when one’s gender identity does not align with their sex assigned at birth—is supported by extensive neurological, biological, and psychological research.
But it will take long time before religious conservatives will accept facts. Probably a generation or two, and in the future people will wonder what the fuss and persecution of these harmless minorities was all about.
We are never going to accept the rainbow club.
We’ll take to the barricades if necessary.
The WHO, he says.
That Ethiopian is a war criminal and mass murderer for pushing millions of poison injections.
You must be a troll or Satan himself.
Scientific fact does not care if you accept it. It is still is a fact. While your precious “God” and “Satan” and everything else in your holy book are just fairytales made up by ancient storytellers.
those poison injections saved more lives than those who defied science (and a nobel prize winner which was Hungarian, Katalin Kariko). i myself took 6 of them and i have more IQ than you Michael.