AfD on equality and diversity

The AfD wants to ban gender-inclusive forms in written language and points to France as a model. It regards such spellings as a change forced on the German language.

The AfD wants to ban gender-inclusive writing. That means spelling words so that all genders are included. The party thinks this harms the German language. France is its model.

The platform sets "natural language" against gender-inclusive forms. According to the AfD, political opponents want to impose these spellings on the public. The party says it will oppose this and cites the French ban as its template.

The AfD wants to keep gender theory out of curricula and lessons because it considers it an ideological construct. Sex education is to be age-appropriate and respect boundaries of modesty. Curricula and teaching should, in its view, be free of political influence.

The AfD does not want gender theory in schools. Gender theory says that gender is also shaped by society. The AfD thinks this is wrong. Sex education should fit the age of the children. Parents should be told about it in advance.

In the platform's view, the idea that gender is a social construct is scientifically untenable. Sex education is to be based on established biological and psychological findings, and the parents of each grade level are to be fully informed beforehand. The AfD rejects games and materials that require children to put themselves in the position of other sexual identities, calling this paternalism. Students should be able to voice their political views without fear of disadvantage from teachers or classmates.

The AfD wants to ban girls from wearing headscarves until the age of religious maturity. In public service, clearly visible religious symbols, including headscarves, would be generally prohibited.

Young girls should not be allowed to wear a headscarf. The ban lasts until the age of religious maturity. From that age, children decide about religion themselves. State employees should not wear headscarves either.

In the party's view, the headscarf sexualizes girls before puberty and takes away a carefree childhood and control over their own bodies. A state ban is meant to protect them from early conditioning by what the party calls a fundamentalist religious practice and to avoid conflicts at schools. The ban in public service is justified by the state's duty of neutrality on matters of belief.

The AfD wants to prevent the loudspeaker-amplified muezzin call to prayer as far as the law allows. It regards the call as an expression of religious intolerance and a burden on residents.

Some mosques call loudly to prayer. This is the muezzin call. The AfD wants to stop it. It says the call disturbs neighbors and social peace.

The platform criticizes that more and more municipalities in the state are granting mosque communities such permits. In the party's view, the wording of the call admits no other god. It also argues the call endangers social peace and lowers the value of properties near mosques.

The AfD sees boys and men as systematically disadvantaged and wants differences between the sexes to be recognized and supported. Research funding for men's and women's studies should be split evenly, and it opposes creating new posts for equal opportunity officers.

The AfD says boys and men are at a disadvantage. It wants to respect differences between boys and girls. Research money on men and on women should be shared equally. The AfD does not want new equal opportunity officers.

The platform says boys show, for example, a greater urge to move and more willingness to take risks, and that this should be valued. In the AfD's view, equal rights must not turn into leveling and must not favor either sex. The party also justifies the even split of research funds by pointing to what it calls a partly patriarchal image of men in immigrant groups. It proposes single-sex classes or individual single-sex lesson units as pilot projects.

The AfD rejects a right to self-determination over one's sex. Adolescents should receive puberty blockers only with parental consent, and gender reassignment surgery should be available only to adults.

The AfD is against people choosing their own gender. Puberty blockers are drugs that pause puberty. Young people should only get them if their parents agree. Surgery should only be for adults.

The platform opposes what it sees as a spreading right to decide one's biological sex for oneself. Puberty blockers should not be given to adolescents without parental consent. Surgical procedures are to be reserved for adults and require an appropriate counseling period.

The AfD affirms equal rights for women and men but rejects quotas on principle. The state should only ensure equal opportunity, and positions should be filled on merit.

The AfD wants equal rights for women and men. But it is against quotas. A quota sets how many women or men get a job. The AfD says only performance should count.

The platform cites Article 3 of the Basic Law, under which no one may be disadvantaged or favored because of their sex. The AfD regards quotas as coercion that is incompatible with equality before the law. In its view, the state must not force gender shares in particular areas. Especially for government jobs, willingness and ability to perform should decide.

The AfD wants to stop spending it regards as driven by party politics or ideology. Diversity alone should not create a claim to public money, and groups the party sees as working against society should not have charitable status.

The AfD wants to stop giving state money to certain groups. It says being different gives no right to money. Some groups should also lose their charitable status. The AfD names Antifa as an example.

The platform affirms free personal development and a variety of ways of life, as long as no one harms others. But it says this creates no entitlement to public funding. Organizations the AfD classifies as aggressive and hostile to the constitution would no longer receive support and would lose charitable status.