Czech President Milos Zeman Calls Transgender People ‘Disgusting’, Says Sex-Change Surgery Is Crime Of Self Harm.

I will agree that I’m not the most politically aware person out there. But I also do believe that politics is the best source of entertainment available. Especially when it comes to people in power saying some of the most random things that’ll make you experience the entire spectrum of emotions, from laughter to anger. It is really amusing and surprising to me that they don’t even realize how insulting they can be when they speak whatever comes to mind. Whether it is Donald Trump tweeting some of the most disturbing things or quite recently, Czech President Milos Zeman commenting on transgender people.

Recently, in a TV interview, the President of Czech, Milos Zeman, while commenting on a Hungarian law that ensures that LGBT materials will be removed from schools, spoke about how he finds the transgenders ‘disgusting.’ Zeman is known for having views that digress from mainstream views. And that is further reiterated when he talks about a law that was passed in Hungary this month. The law bans any sort of content that seems to promote gender change and homosexuality.

In the interview with CNN Prima, Milos Zeman spoke about how “If you undergo a sex-change operation you are basically committing a crime of self-harm.” He even added, “Every surgery is a risk and these transgender people to me are disgusting.”

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There is no doubt that the law is disturbing and conservative in nature. Even the opposition in Czech, rights groups, and many European Union members have opposed and criticized the law. In fact, Dutch Prime Minister, Mark Rutte, expressed his opposition to the law when he boldly told the Hungarian premier Viktor Orban to respect LGBT rights or leave the bloc at the EU summit. 

Not only Rutte, but 27 other EU member states have also opposed the law, but to no avail. Zeman has not revoked the law yet and it doesn’t seem like he is might. He also has condemned the meddling of the EU members in the country’s internal affairs. Until and unless the draconian law gets revoked, there is a good chance that Hungary will face a legal challenge at the EU’s highest court. Viktor Orban should be held responsible for the same. And as a result, Luxembourg Prime Minister Xavier Bettel has asked that Orban be subjected to a hitherto untested procedure wherein the EU stops its funding for those member states that violate the rules.

We’ve come too far to be tolerating this. Time for a leadership change. Now. Yesterday was too late.
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Irrespective of the opposition Zeman has faced and the fact that he has limited executive power, there is no denying that Milos Zeman and his predecessors have strong control over the public debate. His unjust and disturbing ideas don’t just stop with regards to transgenders, but he has also shown support for the policies of Russia and China with regards to Muslim immigrants.

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In the interview, he showed support for Viktor Orban, when he said, “Viktor Orbán says that he is not against homosexuals, but that he is against the manipulation not only of parents but also of children in sex education.” He also gave his two thoughts on the same when he added, “I see no reason to disagree with him because I am completely annoyed by the suffragettes, the Me Too movement, and Prague Pride.”

Orban is known to have grown more conservative and defensive since he took office in 2010. He has been promoting, what he likes to call traditional Christian values. For him, anything that deviates from his ideology is excessive Western liberalism from which he wants to protect his people. In an interview, he tried to justify the law by stating that the law is enforced to guarantee parent’s right to decide their children’s sexual education.

If that is not the most absurd statement, then I don’t know what is. Sex education is not something that can be selective. By denying the children the basic freedom to explore their sexuality, you’re violating their rights to freedom and to choice. I’m not denying that parents shouldn’t have a say in their children’s education, but something basic like sex education is a must and that is definitely not a choice. A child should learn everything that there is about sexuality and gender, and then form an opinion on it. Denying them the freedom of forming their opinion is unfair and unjust. 

Perhaps, the Czech president needs to reconsider his own statements against transgender people, which seem to be against the most basic human right to live as one wants. Anything that erodes that right is what’s really disgusting.

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