What do the parties in Bavaria say on equality and diversity?

The AfD wants to keep the public muezzin call out of Bavaria and stop paying taxpayer money to Islamic organizations. Foreign funding for mosques is to be blocked. The party rejects minarets, which it sees as a show of power by political Islam.

The AfD does not want the muezzin call in Bavaria. The muezzin calls Muslims to prayer out loud. Islamic groups should get no money from the state. Mosques should get no money from abroad either. The AfD is against minarets.

The AfD wants to keep the headscarf ban in the civil service, daycare centers and schools and extend it to kindergarten children and schoolgirls. The burqa is to be banned in public. The platform justifies this as fighting the oppression of women in Islam.

The AfD wants to keep the headscarf ban for public employees. The ban should also apply to children in daycare and school. The burqa should be banned in public. A burqa is a garment that covers the whole body. The AfD says women and men have equal rights.

The AfD wants to punish puberty blockers and gender reassignment surgery for adolescents as serious bodily harm and allow such procedures only from adulthood. It also opposes what it regards as ideological sex education in schools and daycare centers.

The AfD wants to ban puberty blockers for young people. These are drugs that stop puberty. Surgery to change a young person's sex should also be a crime. Only adults should be allowed to do this. The AfD also rejects certain sex education in schools and daycare.

The AfD affirms equal rights for men and women under the Basic Law but rejects quotas and state-mandated equalization. It considers such rules unfair, hostile to merit and unconstitutional. Instead, pay in all occupations should be based on performance.

The AfD says men and women have the same rights. But it wants no quotas. A quota sets how many jobs must go to women. The party thinks this is unfair. Pay should depend on performance.

The CSU wants to preserve Bavarian culture and way of life and rejects identity politics, "wokeness," "cancel culture" and compulsory gender-inclusive language. At the same time, it stands by the Queer Action Plan already under way.

The CSU wants to keep the Bavarian way of life. No one should be forced to use gender-inclusive language. Everyone should live and love as they wish. The CSU will keep working on the action plan for queer people.

The Free Voters reject rules requiring gender-inclusive language from employers, public authorities and universities; language should develop without deliberate intervention. They also oppose what they call cancel culture and want to promote a respectful culture of debate.

The Free Voters do not want anyone forced to use gender-inclusive language. That means writing and speaking so that all genders are included. Employers, offices and universities should not require it. The party also wants people to argue with respect.

The Free Voters want to expand participation for people with disabilities and ease the burden on their families. They add equality demands such as equal pay for equal work, more women in leadership positions and better protection from violence.

People with disabilities should be able to take part everywhere. Train stations and new buildings should have no barriers. Deaf people should get money. Women and men should earn the same for the same work. Women's shelters should get more staff.

The Greens want more women in professorships and want to set appointment quotas using a cascade model. Equality and anti-discrimination offices are to be strengthened, and academic work is to become easier to combine with family.

There are too few women professors. So the Greens want quotas for new professorships. The quota depends on the share of women at the level below. Offices that fight unfair treatment should get more money and powers. Study and research should fit better with family life.

The Greens want to close the pay gap between women and men and ensure equal pay for work of equal value. People working in social professions would get more money and better working conditions.

Women often earn less than men. The Greens want to change that. Women should get the same pay for work of equal value. People in social jobs should be paid better. This includes nursing care and daycare.

The Greens want an action plan and a special investment program to remove physical, social and communication barriers. In the platform's view, the state goal “Bayern barrierefrei 2023” (barrier-free Bavaria by 2023) was clearly missed. Municipalities and districts would receive money for inclusion, and the administration would provide information in plain language.

The Greens want to remove barriers for people with disabilities. There should be a plan and extra money for this. Buses, shops and doctors' offices should be reachable for everyone. People with disabilities should have a say in planning. Public offices should use plain language.

The Greens want equal pay for work of equal value, more women in leadership and a better balance between family and work. The platform calls for binding quotas in the public sphere, equality conditions for public contracts and subsidies, and the goal of making all companies family-friendly by 2035.

Women and men should earn the same for work of equal value. More women should become bosses. The state and its companies should have fixed quotas. Companies with state contracts must do something for equality. By 2035, all companies should be family-friendly.

The Greens want to change electoral law so that women are entitled to half of the seats in parliament. A "half the power" law would achieve this through two-member constituency duos and an equal allocation of list seats.

The Greens want a new election law. Half of the seats in the state parliament should go to women. Each voting district should elect a duo. Seats from party lists should also be shared equally.

The Greens want to fund women's shelters, hotlines and counseling centers better and create more places in order to implement the Istanbul Convention. The platform argues that more and more victims are seeking help and that these facilities' situation threatens their existence.

The Greens want to protect women better from violence. Women's shelters and counseling centers should get more money and more places. After a rape, there should be good emergency care. Evidence should be collected without giving a name.

The Greens want to advance full equality for LGBTIQ* people and rainbow families. Bavaria is to get an action plan for sexual and gender diversity, and the state government is to appoint a queer commissioner. The platform points out that Bavaria is the only German state without such a plan.

The Greens want to protect queer people better. Queer means, for example, lesbian, gay or trans. Bavaria should get an action plan for this. One person in the government should take care of the issue. There should be more counseling, also in rural areas.

The Greens want an anti-discrimination law for Bavaria and a central state office that people affected can turn to. In addition, there is to be an action plan against racism, antisemitism and group-focused hostility.

The Greens want a law against discrimination in Bavaria. Discrimination means someone is treated unfairly, for example because of where they come from. A new office would advise people affected. There would also be a plan against racism and hatred of Jews.

The SPD wants to launch a special program for inclusion and expand Bavaria's disability equality law. Its benchmark is the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Accessibility is to cover communication, housing construction, culture, and political participation.

The SPD wants to do more for people with disabilities. It plans a special program for inclusion. Inclusion means everyone can take part everywhere. Public offices should offer more in easy language and sign language. New homes should be built without barriers.

The SPD wants to revise the Bavarian Equal Opportunities Act so that the public sector leads the way on equality between women and men. Equal opportunities officers would get more powers, and violations would have consequences.

The SPD wants a new equality law in Bavaria. Equality means women and men have the same chances. Public offices should set an example. Breaking the law should have consequences.

The SPD wants public money to benefit all genders equally. To that end, the state budget is to be planned and managed according to gender equality criteria (gender budgeting).

The state spends a lot of money. The SPD wants this money to help women and men equally. So Bavaria should check this for every spending decision. This is called gender budgeting.

The SPD wants to help children and young adults move beyond conventional gender roles. In the platform's view, such stereotypes entrench existing inequalities.

Many people think girls should be quiet and boys should be tough. The SPD wants to break down these fixed ideas. There should be campaigns in daycare centers, schools and universities. Everyone there should talk about sexism.

The SPD wants to write equal representation of women and men into Bavarian election law. Leadership bodies of state-owned companies and professorships are also to be filled half by women.

The SPD wants as many women as men in the state parliament. This should be written into election law. Women should also hold half of the top posts in state-owned companies. At universities, every second professor should be a woman.

The SPD wants to draw up a state action plan for the acceptance of sexual diversity to curb discrimination and violence against queer people. It also plans more services for queer youth, police training and a statewide coordination office.

Queer people are, for example, lesbian, gay or trans. The SPD wants to protect them better from hate and violence. Bavaria should get an action plan for this. There should be more safe places for queer young people. Police officers should get training on this.

The SPD wants to fight racism at every level and sees this as the basis for integration. It plans a state anti-discrimination law and legally mandated anti-discrimination offices. It also wants the term “race” removed from the Basic Law, Germany's constitution.

The SPD wants to act against racism. Bavaria should get a law against discrimination. Discrimination means people are treated worse, for example because of where they come from. There should be offices everywhere that help those affected. The word “race” should be removed from the German constitution.

The SPD wants to fully implement the Istanbul Convention on protecting women from violence in Bavaria and to fund women's shelters and counseling services reliably. Gender equality policy is to follow the EU Gender Equality Strategy. EU rules on equal pay and pay transparency are also to be implemented.

The SPD wants to protect women better from violence. Women's shelters should have enough money and enough places. Women and men should get the same pay for the same work. To do this, the SPD wants to apply EU rules in Bavaria.