What do LGBTQ people think about Hungary's controversial referendum?
Hungary is holding a controversial referendum on LGBTQ rights on Sunday (3 April), at the same time as a parliamentary election.
Voters will be asked for their views on legislation that limits schools' teaching about homosexuality and transgender issues.
Critics say the law, passed last year, was discriminatory, contravened European values and equates homosexuality with paedophilia.
Ahead of the vote, Euronews spoke to four members of Hungary's LGBTQ community to find out how they were feeling.
Three of them told us if things don't improve, they might not be living in Hungary much longer.
"It's not that the state doesn't represent me or doesn't protect my rights. It's about being put on the spot and put in front of the gun."
This is how Mónika Magasházi summed up her feelings as a member of the LGBTQ community in Hungary in 2022.
"I no longer even think about being represented and protected by the state," Mónika added. "That's just in the dream category, now. I would be at least a bit happy if they would just leave me alone."
The 49-year-old trans woman has been on hormone therapy for about six months and is now preparing for her first reconstructive surgery.
She has been living as a woman for a year and a half, but it was the day of our interview that she first spoke to her boss at work about it.
In some ways, Mónika feels that coming out at work has even been made easier by the Hungarian government's handling of LGBTQ issues.
"I have a very strange feeling about this," said Mónika. "I feel very upset that the government has actually attacked us with this propaganda. It's coming out of the public media, it's coming out of the billboards. On the other hand, it can also be counterproductive for them. Because now that the government
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