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Transgender couple wed in Hungary, land of growing homophobia

Transgender couple wed in Hungary, land of growing homophobia

BERNADETT SZABO and BALAZS KAUFMANN THE wedding of Hungarian transgender couple Tamara Csillag and Elvira Angyal looked just like any other, with the nervous pair dressing up and heading off to the rural Hungarian courtroom where their marriage would be sealed. But in the world of nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban, this was special as Orban, increasingly hostile to LGBT+ people, has outlawed legal recognition of transgender identity. Ironically, that made the wedding possible, as Csillag was stuck with male documents while Angyal had already completed her transition and had the documents to prove it. "Our dream has come true.…
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