Niamh Harris – Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has banned gender studies programs at universities, with his deputy arguing that the area of study is an ideology rather than a science.

A spokesman for the Prime Minister said “The Government’s standpoint is that people are born either male or female and we do not consider it acceptable for us to talk about socially-constructed genders, rather than biological sexes.”

Lat month the Hungarian government issued a decree to revoke accreditation and funding for gender studies programs at the two universities that provide them in the country.

Deputy Prime Minister Zsolt Semjen said that gender studies “has no business in universities” because it is “an ideology, not a science”.

CNN reports: According to Budapest’s prestigious Central European University, the government offered no public explanation for removing accreditation for their gender studies Master’s and PhD programs. Continue reading →