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Hungary bans “useless” gender studies programmes at Universities




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The Hungarian government has announced that it will cease funding for gender studies university courses as they are pushing ideas that are “ideology and not science”, Breitbart News reported.

Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s chief of staff Gergely Gulyas cited low enrolment numbers for gender studies classes at the country’s universities as a legitimate reason in itself to terminate funding for the programmes but also made clear the opposition of Orban’s government to the ideology promoted in gender studies programmes, Reuters reported.

The Hungarian government adheres to the scientific view that an individual’s gender is demined at birth by undeniable biological reality i.e. sex organs and chromosomes, a factual, scientific view they claim is directly denied by the gender studies programmes and the Hungarian state “does not wish to spend public funds in this area”.

The Hungarian government also cited that employers show little interest in hiring people based on gender studies qualifications, the UK Express reported.

Gender studies courses are taught at the state-run university ELTE and Central European University, the CEU was founded by multi-billionaire George Soros, himself a Hungarian native, who along with his Open Societies Foundation has worked oppose populists such as Prime Minister Orban.

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