What do the parties in Baden-Württemberg say on equality and diversity?

The AfD rejects puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and gender-altering surgery for minors. Such decisions should be possible only from the age of majority because, in its view, the consequences are irreversible.

Some young people want to change their gender. There are hormones and operations for this. The AfD does not want this for people under 18. Only adults should be allowed to decide this.

The CDU wants women to take part in the labor market more fully and on equal terms, especially in STEM jobs and leadership positions. This is meant to strengthen their financial independence and prevent poverty in old age. It wants to improve protection from violence through the Gewalthilfegesetz (violence assistance act).

Women and men should have the same chances. More women should work in technical jobs and as managers. Then they have their own money and are less often poor in old age. Women should be better protected from violence.

The Greens want more women to be able to work and the pay gap with men to shrink. The platform names better work-family balance as a key element and also sees it as a competitive advantage against the skilled-labor shortage.

The Greens want more women to be able to work. Women should earn as much as men. Family and work should fit together better. For this, there should be more childcare.

The Greens want to give early-career researchers more security and a stronger say, and to further raise the share of women among professors and university leaders. They want to counter discrimination at universities.

Young researchers often only have short contracts. The Greens want to give them more security. More women should become professors. Nobody should be treated unfairly at universities.

The Greens want teacher training to build more awareness of the realities queer children and teenagers face. Together with education providers from the queer community, they want to foster a school culture in which these students feel safe and accepted.

Queer people are, for example, gay, lesbian or trans. The Greens want teachers to learn more about queer students. No one should be left out at school. Queer students should feel safe at school.

The Greens want to create tailored counseling for people who are the first in their family to attend university. They also want to attract more women to STEM degrees and skilled trades, and more men to midwifery.

Some people are the first in their family to go to university. The Greens want special advice for them. More women should study science and technology. More women should also work in skilled trades.

The Greens want to push at the federal level for removing abortion from the Criminal Code. Within the state, there should be secure and timely access to abortion everywhere, and pregnancy counseling is to be expanded.

Abortion is in the criminal law today. The Greens want to change that. Women should decide about their own bodies. There should be doctors for an abortion everywhere in the state. Counseling for pregnant women should get better.

The Greens want to achieve statewide coverage with women's shelters and implement the Istanbul Convention against violence against women. Equality of all genders is to be advanced and the protection of queer people improved.

Women's shelters protect women from violence. The Greens want enough of them everywhere in the state. All genders should have equal chances. Queer people should also be better protected.

The Greens want to revise the state's Chancengleichheitsgesetz (equal opportunity act) so that gender equality becomes more effective and binding. They advocate equal pay and more women in leadership positions.

Women and men should have equal chances. A state law should become stricter for this. Women should get the same pay for the same work. More women should become bosses.

The Greens want to add sexual identity to the anti-discrimination clause of the Basic Law and modernize family and parentage law so that rainbow families have legal security. Existing support structures for queer people in the state are to be developed and funded for the long term.

Queer people should be better protected. The constitution should ban unfair treatment because of sexual identity. Families with two mothers or two fathers should get equal rights. Counseling should also exist in rural areas.

The Greens want to fight violence against women through prevention and prosecution. They call on the federal government to create a separate criminal offense for femicide, rely on electronic ankle monitors, and want to ensure enough women's shelters and counseling centers across the state.

Women and girls should be better protected from violence. Killing a woman because she is a woman should be its own crime. Dangerous offenders should wear an ankle monitor. There should be enough women's shelters.

The Greens want an equal treatment act to protect people from discrimination by public authorities. Anti-discrimination projects and counseling centers are to receive reliable funding, and a prevention network against hate crime is to be built.

No one should be treated worse by public offices. A strong law should make sure of that. Counseling centers against unfair treatment should get steady funding. A network should help prevent hate crimes.

The Greens want to protect Jewish life, step up education about antisemitism in schools and secure permanent counseling centers against antisemitism. The Islamberatung Baden-Württemberg (Islam advisory service) is to become the central point of contact for Muslim communities.

Jewish people should live without fear. Schools should teach more about hatred of Jews. There should be lasting counseling centers. Muslim communities should get one central contact office.

The SPD wants to keep implementing the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and improve opportunities for people with disabilities in education, housing and work. Deafblind and deaf people are to receive a regularly adjusted cash allowance to offset disadvantages. Integration assistance is to be improved.

People with disabilities should decide about their own lives. The SPD wants more homes without barriers. More people with disabilities should get regular jobs. Deafblind and deaf people should get money from the state. The money should rise with prices.

The SPD wants an action plan to eliminate the pay gap between women and men, which the program says is larger in Baden-Württemberg than in any other German state. More women are to reach leadership positions, supervisory boards and decision-making bodies. To that end, exemptions in the state's Equal Opportunities Act are to be removed.

Women in the state earn less than men. The SPD wants a plan to change this. Pay should be more open. More women should become bosses. The SPD will change the equal opportunities law for this.

The SPD wants to implement women's legal right to protection from violence in the state and create more counseling centers, shelters and violence protection clinics. The Istanbul Convention is to be applied consistently. Offenses are to be prosecuted more strictly and electronic ankle monitors used consistently.

The SPD wants to protect women better from violence. There should be more women's shelters and counseling centers. Offenders should be prosecuted more strictly. Some offenders should wear an electronic ankle monitor. There should also be counseling for offenders.

The SPD wants to secure the state action plan for acceptance and equal rights through a state law and create a state-level commissioner for queer affairs. Schools are to become safer for queer children and teenagers. The party justifies this with growing threats from the right.

The SPD wants to support queer people. Queer means, for example, lesbian, gay or trans. A law should secure the action plan for equal rights. The state should get a commissioner for queer people. Schools should be safer for queer children.

The SPD wants to introduce a state anti-discrimination law that protects people from unequal treatment by public bodies. Hate crime is also to be prosecuted and recorded more thoroughly. The platform argues that people are especially vulnerable when dealing with authorities and enforcement officers.

The SPD wants a new law against discrimination. Discrimination means someone is treated unfairly. The law should protect people when they deal with public offices. People should be able to get compensation. Victims of hate violence should be able to report it easily.

The SPD wants to protect Jewish life in Baden-Württemberg and fight antisemitism through prosecution, education and victim counseling. It bases this on a historical and values-based responsibility of state and society. It wants to keep working closely with churches and religious communities.

The SPD wants to protect Jewish people in the state. Hatred of Jews should be punished. Schools should teach more about it. Victims should get counseling. The SPD wants to keep working with the churches.

The SPD wants transport planning to take greater account of the different mobility needs of women and men. In the platform's view, today's transport system treats these needs unequally.

Women and men often travel differently. The SPD wants transport planning to take this into account. More women should work and lead in the transport field. Money and staff are to be provided for this.