AfD on equality and diversity

The AfD wants puberty blockers for minors allowed only in individual cases where they are medically indispensable. It rejects use motivated by gender politics and points to irreversible consequences.

Puberty blockers are drugs. They pause puberty. The AfD wants to allow them only in rare cases. A doctor must find them absolutely necessary. The AfD says the effects cannot be undone.

The platform criticizes a federal law from May 2021 on children with variations of sex development, which in the AfD's view makes it easier for minors to seek treatment for a change of sex. The party calls such procedures mutilation. Puberty blockers, it says, delay development and prepare for surgery. The party sees a risk of severe, lifelong physical and psychological harm.

The AfD stresses that state law takes precedence over religious rules and considers orthodox Islam incompatible with the secular state under the rule of law. Freedom of religion applies to Muslims too, it says, but creates no special rights; religious extremism is to be fought.

The AfD says state laws rank above religious rules. Muslims may practice their faith. But they should not get special rights. The AfD wants to fight religious extremism.

According to the program, only the state may make and enforce law. The AfD describes orthodox Islam as a political religion whose sharia does not fit this understanding of the state. The party explicitly accepts that the constitution's freedom of faith also covers Muslims. If minors or other people are demeaned in the name of religion, this should have swift and noticeable consequences. Every form of religious extremism is to be fought firmly.

The AfD wants to end measures that, in its account, favor non-European people in appointments, jobs and participation. It sees these as disadvantaging the native population and wants to cut state funding for them.

The AfD says some programs favor people from outside Europe. For example, with public posts or jobs. The AfD wants to end such programs. The state should no longer pay for them.

This refers to what is also called affirmative action. The party calls the practice unacceptable and classifies it as racist and hostile to the constitution. It locates its supporters mainly in the governing coalition and the groups around it. As a key tool, the program names ending financial support from the state.