AfD on equality and diversity

The AfD wants ways of life that differ from the traditional model to receive no more public space than they have in everyday life. It opposes redefining descent, family and marriage and rejects what it calls early sexualization. Judging ways of life and sexuality is to remain a matter for parents.

The AfD wants to tolerate other ways of life but not promote them. The words marriage, family and descent should keep their meaning. Parents should talk to their children about sexuality, not the daycare center. Children should learn about sex in a way that fits their age.

The platform calls for tolerance but rejects pushing children to accept other ways of life. The party wants to oppose, at every level, any reinterpretation of the terms descent, family and marriage. Every child should be able to know its biological parents. Citing Article 22 of the state constitution, the platform leaves the assessment of lifestyles and sexuality to parents until children show interest themselves. Sex education as part of prevention work in early childhood education, which the party describes as intrusive, is to stop; children are to be informed in an age-appropriate way that respects their sense of modesty.

The AfD wants children to no longer take part in parades such as Christopher Street Day. The state of Saxony is to ensure this on grounds of youth protection. Public schools and daycare centers are to be barred from promoting such events.

The AfD wants to keep children away from rainbow parades. One example is Christopher Street Day. The state of Saxony should make sure of this. Schools and daycare centers should not advertise such events.

The platform describes parades that publicly display sexual orientations as unsuitable for children. It notes that children in Saxony have been taking part in such marches for years. The state is to stop this in the future, relying on youth protection law in the party's view. The AfD also calls for a ban on promoting rainbow parades and LGBTQ events at public schools and daycare centers.

The AfD wants to abolish equal opportunity officers and end funding for what it calls gender ideology. Only professional qualifications should count in hiring. It rejects rules on "politically correct" language.

The AfD wants no more equal opportunity officers. It wants to stop paying for gender topics. It rejects rules for gender-inclusive language. For jobs, only skills should count.

In the AfD's view, gender research denies natural differences between men and women and contradicts biology and developmental psychology. It also says this weakens the standing of marriage and family and unsettles children. The party disputes that this is a science. It does not see differences in career choices as proof of discrimination.

The AfD wants to stop the use of puberty blockers and similar drugs in children who cannot consent themselves, with only rare exceptions. Gender-affirming surgery on minors would also be prohibited as a rule.

Puberty blockers are drugs. They pause the physical development of young people. The AfD wants to ban these drugs for children in almost all cases. Surgery to change sex should also be banned for minors. It should stay allowed only in exceptional cases.

The ban on the drugs would apply to children who are not capable of consent, with exceptions only in special individual cases. Surgical gender-affirming procedures would likewise be possible for those under 18 only as an exception. The party also opposes what it calls early sexualization in daycare centers and schools.

The AfD rejects the building of mosques in Saxony, especially with minarets. Mosque associations would have to sign a declaration of commitment to democracy and disclose their finances; funding from abroad would be banned.

The AfD wants no new mosques in Saxony. Mosque groups should sign a statement. In it they commit to the state and reject violence. They should show where their money comes from. Money from abroad should be banned.

In the declaration, the associations would commit to the secular state, to freedom of religion, and to renouncing violence. Those who refuse would, according to the AfD, lose all legal legitimacy. Ties to international organizations and to bodies of foreign states would also have to be disclosed. The platform states that Muslims' faith and religious practice are guaranteed but that mosques are not needed for this. The AfD also calls for every form of antisemitism to be socially condemned, explicitly including that from left-wing and Muslim circles.