FDP on equality and diversity

The FDP calls for a zero-tolerance policy against discrimination of LGBTQIA+ people. It wants to expand prevention, prosecute violence and hate crime, and create contact points and safe housing.

The FDP wants to protect queer people better. Nobody should treat them unfairly or attack them. The police should pursue such crimes and count them separately. There should be more help centers and safe apartments. Schools should teach about the topic.

Decision-makers in government, churches and other organizations would be made more aware of tolerance and acceptance. Additional prevention work is planned in schools, educational and recreational facilities; schools would get the technical option to use names that differ from a student's official name. Insults and incitement to hatred would also be prosecuted and listed in the statistics as anti-LGBTI offenses. Help centers would enable violence prevention in all districts of Bremen and Bremerhaven. The FDP also wants to fund "community spaces" and give advocacy groups its moral support.

The FDP wants to add sexual identity to the ban on discrimination in the Basic Law (Germany's constitution). The term "race" would be replaced with different wording in the Basic Law and in Bremen's state constitution.

Germany's constitution bans unfair treatment. The FDP wants it to name sexual identity too. The word "race" should be removed from the constitution. Bremen's state constitution should also use a different word.

The addition concerns Article 3(3) of the Basic Law. For "race," the platform calls for up-to-date wording there and in Article 2(2) of the state constitution. The FDP stresses every person's right to physical integrity and sexual self-determination, and wants that protection improved. In its view, the state may not enforce moralizing ideas about sexuality.

The FDP wants to make it easier for women to work and train and to make Bremen a model for balancing work and family. It relies on part-time training models, childcare, flexible working hours and support for women in science.

The FDP wants all women to be able to work if they wish. Training should also be possible part-time. Every training course should come with childcare. Employers should offer flexible hours. More women should work and lead in science.

The platform names modular training and part-time qualifications, developed together with employers where possible. Parents should no longer have to drop out of training because childcare is missing; the FDP welcomes the daycare offers for job center clients. It wants to promote flexible hours and work locations among employers, with the state, municipalities and public enterprises leading the way. Social and health professions are to be strengthened. The FDP favors low-bureaucracy methods that make the pay gap visible and aims for gender-balanced staffing of academic posts, especially in STEM fields and leadership positions.

The FDP wants more and better places in women's shelters, especially in the city of Bremen. The state action plan on the Istanbul Convention (the European treaty on violence against women) is to be carried out quickly and in full, including on digital violence.

Many women suffer violence at home. The FDP wants more places in shelters. There should be enough psychological care there. The FDP also wants to do more against violence online. There should be a special counseling center for that.

The shelters would also give refugee women and women with children immediate housing and psychological care, and would have enough trained staff. Against digital violence such as cyberstalking, cyberbullying or upskirting, the FDP wants to provide research money for a strategy and prevention plan. Those affected would get a counseling center with trained staff, and teachers would be trained to recognize such violence. The FDP supports a violence protection clinic at Klinikum Bremen-Mitte as a central point of contact. It welcomes additional trauma clinics in other districts and in Bremerhaven.

The FDP wants people with disabilities to be able to live as independently as possible and take full part in everyday life. Accessibility is to apply in public spaces, in housing and in how public authorities communicate.

People with disabilities should decide about their own lives. The FDP wants to remove barriers for them. Sidewalks and public toilets should work for everyone. Letters and forms from public offices should also be easy to access. Sign language should count as a language of its own.

Every person with a disability should be able to reach the educational qualification that matches their abilities and receive individual socio-educational support. Sign language is to be taught more often in Bremen's schools and recognized as a full language. Sidewalks are to be maintained so wheelchairs and strollers can use them safely; the platform cites the area around Bremen's main train station as needing improvement. Accessible housing is to receive more funding, and private providers are to get support in removing barriers. Assistance is to be individual, unbureaucratic and better organized, and specialized institutions are to be adequately funded.