AfD on equality and diversity

The AfD wants to ban the Islamic full-face veil in all public spaces in Hamburg. In addition, a general headscarf ban is to apply in public institutions and the civil service. The program cites equality between women and men and what it sees as growing Islamization.

The AfD wants to ban full-face veils. This would apply in all public places. Headscarves should also be banned. This covers offices, schools, universities and state hospitals. The AfD points to France as a model.

The program holds up France and the Netherlands, which have banned full-face veils, as models. The ban is to be designed so that it does not curtail citizens' freedoms beyond that, and the AfD would create any necessary constitutional basis. The headscarf ban, modeled on France and formerly Turkey, is to cover government offices, schools, universities, state-run hospitals and institutions partly funded by the state.

The AfD rejects gender mainstreaming and tools such as gender studies, quotas for women and gender-neutral language. Family policy should be based on father, mother and children, and positions should be filled solely on qualifications and merit.

The AfD says there are two sexes. It is against gender policies. It is also against quotas for women and gender-neutral language. For the AfD, family means father, mother and children. Jobs should go to the most capable.

The program assumes two sexes and considers gender mainstreaming at odds with biology and developmental psychology. It rejects gender studies, quotas such as those for women, campaigns like Equal Pay Day, and gender-neutral language. The AfD opposes extending the meaning of family in Article 6(1) of the Basic Law to other communities. It affirms equal rights for men and women and wants positions filled without discrimination based on qualifications and performance.

The AfD wants to ban gender transition procedures and puberty blockers for children and adolescents. In its view, such a serious decision should only be made in adulthood.

Some children want to change their gender. The AfD wants to ban this for children and teens. It is also against puberty blockers. These are drugs that stop puberty. Only adults should decide this.

The program holds that sex chromosomes determine sex. It criticizes what it sees as the growing trivialization of gender transitions. The AfD rejects such procedures and hormone treatment with puberty blockers for minors and requires the maturity of adulthood for these decisions.