AfD on equality and diversity

The AfD rejects quota rules in working life. In its view, quotas replace performance and suitability with gender and treat women across the board as a weaker group. Jobs should go to the best applicants.

The AfD does not want quotas for women at work. A quota says how many jobs must go to women. The AfD says only skill and performance should count. The best applicants should get the job.

The platform criticizes that more and more areas of working life are to be steered by quotas. The AfD sees this as condescending toward women and as an unfair intervention in competition based on merit. Without quotas, it says, both sexes have equal opportunity. In hiring decisions, nobody should be favored or disadvantaged without reason.

The AfD wants to raise the number of women's shelters in Rhineland-Palatinate from 19 to 36, so that every independent city and every county has one. The state would cover most of the municipal share of the costs. Women's emergency helplines are also to be expanded and made better known.

Women's shelters protect women and children from violence at home. Today the state has 19 of them. The AfD wants 36 shelters. The state should pay most of the cost. Helplines for women should also grow.

According to the platform, demand exceeds the available places because many municipalities cannot pay more given their finances. In the future, each of the twelve independent cities and 24 counties is to have a shelter. Working women would no longer pay a personal contribution for their stay. Every shelter is to have a children's area staffed by trained childcare workers. Helplines for victims of sexualized violence are to be reachable quickly by phone and online.

The AfD wants to repeal the Selbstbestimmungsgesetz (Self-Determination Act). Protected spaces such as women's shelters, saunas and changing rooms are to be open only to biological women. The platform justifies this with dangers it sees for women.

The Self-Determination Act lets people change their legal gender easily. The AfD wants to end this law. Women's shelters and changing rooms should be only for biological women. The AfD says this protects women better.

In the platform's view, biological and sociological differences remain after a gender transition; it says trans women are biologically men. The AfD sees the law as the reason trans women gain access to protected spaces for women. Abuse of the law is to be punished, for example when convicted offenders declare themselves women in order to be placed in a women's prison.

The AfD wants to cut state funds that it says promote a "gender ideology" and to keep such content out of daycare centers and schools. Gender-altering treatments would be allowed before age 18 only when medically necessary. The party justifies this with the welfare of children.

The AfD rejects what it calls gender ideology. The state should stop paying for it. Daycare centers and schools should no longer teach it. Under 18, treatments to change gender should be allowed only for medical reasons.

The platform cites a sum of more than half a million euros in the 2025/2026 state budget that it says goes to this area. In the AfD's view, this leads children and teenagers to question their gender, their feelings and their origins. The party speaks of indoctrination and a harmful influence from which it wants to protect minors. It says this also strengthens families.