CDU on equality and diversity

The CDU wants to secure support services for women affected by violence and expand them where needed. Existing disadvantages for women are to be reduced because, in the platform's view, equality has not yet been achieved in many areas.

The CDU wants to protect women from violence. This applies especially to violence at home. Women's shelters and counseling centers should stay. Where needed, there should be more of them. Women should have equal rights everywhere.

According to the platform, protection from domestic violence has especially high priority. Emergency hotlines for women, counseling and intervention centers, and a statewide network of women's shelters are to be kept. The CDU names equal rights for women as a goal in all areas. It wants to actively tackle injustices.

The CDU opposes compulsory gender-inclusive language as well as what it calls cancel culture and wokeness. Everyone should be able to speak, eat, love and live as they wish. The platform also commits to an open-minded patriotism and to opposing discrimination.

The CDU does not want anyone forced to use gender-inclusive language. That means speaking so that all genders are named. Everyone should talk and live as they like. The CDU is against bans in daily life. It is also against treating people unfairly.

The platform wants to preserve Thuringia's culture and way of life and describes the state as a free state that should not be a state of bans. The CDU rejects disciplining unwelcome opinions out of what it sees as misunderstood political correctness. It commits to pluralist democracy, to the cultural, religious and historical heritage, and to a patriotism that invites rather than excludes. It says it will oppose every form of discrimination.

The CDU wants a binding rule that government offices and schools do not use special characters for gender-inclusive language, such as the asterisk, colon or underscore. The official rulebook of the Council for German Orthography is to be the standard.

The CDU wants to stop gender symbols inside words. This applies to government offices and schools. Examples are the star or the colon inside a word. The official spelling rules should apply there.

The platform calls for a fixed rule covering public administration and schools. It names the gender asterisk, the gender colon and the gender underscore. Instead, speaking and writing are to follow the rulebook of the Council for German Orthography.