AfD on equality and diversity

The AfD wants to abolish, without replacement, what the program calls the General Equal Treatment Act, because in its view the law mainly creates red tape. It also wants to restrict warning-letter associations and the right of associations to sue, and to roll back state requirements for businesses.

There is a law against unfair treatment. The AfD wants to scrap this law. It says the law creates too much work for businesses. Lawsuits by associations against companies should also be harder.

For small and medium-sized businesses and agencies, costs should stay proportionate, for example for equal opportunity officers. Smaller companies are to be protected from becoming targets of professional litigants. The AfD generally opposes state paternalism toward entrepreneurs and regards pay differences by qualification as a feature of an efficient market economy. Bureaucratic rules, for example on the minimum wage, are to be simplified.

The AfD rejects gender mainstreaming and gender studies and wants to end public funding for such projects immediately. In its view, the underlying theories contradict natural science. It also wants to stop what it calls the early sexualization of children.

The AfD is against gender policy. It wants no more money for gender projects. It says most people see themselves as male or female. It also opposes early sex education in kindergarten.

According to the platform, gender mainstreaming tries to impose a dissolution of the sexes man and woman, especially on children and young people. The AfD calls gender studies a pseudoscience and points out that most people in Lower Saxony identify as male or female. Under the term early sexualization, it opposes content that it believes is already taught in kindergarten. It says this does not serve age-appropriate education but unsettles children's gender identity and removes boundaries of modesty.

The AfD wants to ban gender-inclusive written language in the justice system. In the party's view, laws and court rulings require precise and correct language.

The AfD wants to ban gender-inclusive language in the justice system. This kind of language names all genders, for example with an asterisk. The AfD says laws and rulings must be clear and easy to understand.

The ban is to apply to written language in the justice system. The AfD argues that the state is responsible for binding laws and rulings. These should therefore be worded clearly and unambiguously.