AfD on equality and diversity

The AfD wants to abolish the office of the equal opportunity officer and install a family officer instead. That officer would assess how government action affects the birth rate. Laws and regulations would be reviewed for family-friendliness.

Today there are equal opportunity officers. The AfD wants to end this office. A family officer should take its place. This person checks if laws are good for families.

The program wants to abolish social policy instruments that the AfD considers costly and divisive. Its example is the equal opportunity officer, who would be replaced by a family officer. This officer would assess how state action influences the birth rate and develop further family- and child-friendly measures. New and existing rules would be checked for whether they benefit families and children. The background is the low birth rate, which the program puts at 1.31 children per woman in Saxony-Anhalt in 2024.

The AfD wants to end all state campaigns and programs that expose children to sexual topics before puberty. It calls such programs early sexualization and regards sex education as the parents' job.

The AfD wants to stop certain state programs. These programs talk with young children about sexuality. The AfD says parents should talk about this with their children. In daycare, a family with a man and a woman should count as normal.

As an example, the platform cites a state government action plan with a so-called daycare kit which, according to the AfD, questions the idea of what a normal family is. The party accuses such campaigns of promoting non-standard gender identities and sexual preferences to children of daycare and elementary school age. In daycare centers, the family of a man and a woman would be treated as the normal form and the existence of two sexes as a biological fact.

The AfD wants to prohibit gender-inclusive language in all official state contexts and issue a guideline on good German. The platform rejects every form of gendered language reform, including forms such as "Studierende" (a gender-neutral word for students). It justifies this by holding on to inherited language forms and by readability.

The AfD wants to ban gender-inclusive language in public offices. This applies to schools, courts, and ministries, for example. Only traditional spellings should be used there. The party also rejects gender-neutral words like "Studierende." A new guideline should show what good German is.

The ban would apply to schools, courts, ministries, municipal administration, and the state parliament. The platform rejects the capital I inside words, X endings, and participle forms. In its view, gender-inclusive language aims to remove gender from language and society. The planned guideline would exclude all forms the party attributes to feminist or gender ideology. The AfD distinguishes itself from the CDU, which it says only rejects the most far-reaching forms.

The AfD wants to replace the "Girls' and Boys' Day" with a joint Future Day for career orientation. Boys and girls would not be separated and could choose freely. The party sees no problem in occupations being chosen at different rates by women and men.

The AfD wants to end Girls' and Boys' Day. There should be a Future Day instead. Boys and girls learn about jobs together there. Everyone can choose what they like.

According to the platform, the current event serves to steer young men into typically female occupations and young women into typically male ones. The AfD rejects aligning career choices with quotas or gender parity. The platform cites elementary school teachers, childcare workers, and police officers as examples. The new Future Day would have no division by gender.

The AfD wants to interpret religious freedom more narrowly and push back the influence of Islam in Saxony-Anhalt as far as the law permits. In the platform's view, this basic right has been stretched too far over recent decades.

The AfD wants to limit the influence of Islam in Saxony-Anhalt. It wants to read religious freedom more narrowly than today. The party says this right was stretched too far. It only wants to do what the law allows.

The platform considers Islam, because of its legal rules, incompatible with a Western understanding of the state. It says freedom of belief and undisturbed religious practice under Article 4 of the Basic Law also apply to Muslims but have turned into a "super basic right." The AfD wants to bring this right back to what it sees as an appropriate scale. In the party's view, mosques do not have to be recognizable as conspicuous buildings, and the muezzin's call is not necessary for practicing the religion.

The AfD wants to issue a decree banning schools from officially displaying the rainbow flag. It sees the flag as the symbol of a movement that, in its view, attacks traditional normality, and wants schools to present the family of man, woman and children as the model.

Schools should no longer show the rainbow flag. The AfD wants to order this with an official instruction. Students may still use the flag privately, for example as a sticker. The AfD wants schools to show the family of man, woman and children as the model.

The ban would be put in place through a circular decree, meaning an instruction from the ministry to schools. It covers display of the flag by the school itself. Private use by individual students, such as a sticker on a school bag, remains exempt. As justification, the platform says that in the AfD's view the LGBTQ movement uses the interests of non-heterosexual people only as a pretext and runs counter to the family model the party wants taught.

The AfD wants to end women's quotas and state programs that specifically support women at universities. In the state's Higher Education Act, the goal of "Gleichstellung" (equality of outcome) would be replaced by equal rights, and the office of equal opportunity officer would be removed. The platform argues that current policy disadvantages men and lowers academic standards.

The AfD wants to end quotas for women at universities. Programs that support only women would stop. There would be no more equal opportunity officers. The AfD says only performance should count.

Scholarships, university jobs and professorships would be awarded on academic qualification alone. State programs aimed only at women would be discontinued and all women's quotas lifted. The Higher Education Act would name equal rights rather than equality of outcome as its goal. The role of equal opportunity officer would be deleted from the law. The platform's reasoning is that current practice favors women and discourages men from pursuing academic careers.

The AfD wants to abolish gender studies at the state's universities and withdraw public funding from the field. In its view, gender studies are largely a political ideology rather than scholarship. The lever would be the target agreements between the state and the universities.

The AfD wants to abolish gender studies. This field looks at the roles of men and women. The AfD says it is politics and not science. The state would no longer pay for it.

The platform denies that gender studies stand up to objective scrutiny as scholarship. Historical or sociological research on gender roles would keep its place at the university. An AfD state government would use its influence in negotiating target agreements with universities. The stated aim is for the humanities to meet scholarly standards again.

The AfD rejects targets for a higher share of women and gender parity in the police. Positions should be filled solely on the basis of aptitude, performance and qualifications.

The AfD wants no quotas for women in the police. A quota sets how many jobs should go to women. Only ability and performance should count. The AfD says quotas put men at a disadvantage.

According to the platform, parity can only be reached by lowering requirements for women, because fewer women than men apply. It says this harms the police service and disadvantages male applicants. The AfD cites civil service law and wants to rule out both open and hidden quotas.

The AfD wants to remove the obligation for municipalities to appoint equal opportunity officers. Public funding should no longer be tied to gender targets or similar requirements but should follow actual need and benefit religion, local customs and culture in the villages.

Today, municipalities must have an equal opportunity officer. The AfD wants to end this duty. Gender targets should no longer matter for public funding. The money should go to religion, local customs and culture in villages.

The obligation is to be removed by amending the state's Municipal Constitution Act; the working time or positions freed up are to be used for other tasks. The program justifies this by saying the other parties want to carry their worldview all the way into local councils. In awarding funds, the AfD rejects criteria it attributes to a "rainbow ideology." Municipal schools, clubs and kindergartens are to receive support only if, in the party's view, they serve citizens and not that agenda.

The AfD wants to abolish the posts of special commissioners, such as those for gender equality, integration, and diversity. In its view, these offices are costly, offer residents little benefit, and serve to provide jobs for people close to other parties.

The state has commissioners for certain topics. For example, for equality and integration. The AfD wants to get rid of these posts. It says they cost a lot and help little.

The program names commissioners for gender equality, integration, diversity, and other areas. The AfD classifies them as symbolic politics and prestige offices. It wants the tax money saved to go toward services for residents and solving concrete problems. The program also criticizes what the party sees as an ideological shaping of the administration through gender and diversity rules.