What do the parties in Thuringia say 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 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.

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.

The BSW wants a state law requiring that, with equal qualifications, at least half of newly filled public-sector jobs go to East German applicants. The rule should be temporary and also cover research and culture. The party cites the underrepresentation of East Germans in leading positions.

The BSW wants more East Germans in important jobs. At least every second new public job should go to East Germans. This applies if applicants are equally qualified. The rule should only last for a limited time.

The BSW wants better protection for women and children against violence. Women's shelters should be available everywhere with more state support, and an action plan is to implement the Istanbul Convention.

Women and children should be better protected from violence. There should be women's shelters everywhere. Women find safety there. The state should give more money for them.

The BSW wants to create new tools that help people with disabilities enter vocational training or regular employment. Public offices, cultural venues and public transit should also become barrier-free, and the Bundesteilhabegesetz (Federal Participation Act) should be implemented, with the federal government covering the extra costs.

People with disabilities should find work more easily. The BSW wants new kinds of help for this. Offices, buses and museums should have no barriers. Support money for blind and deaf people should rise with prices. Offices should offer more texts in plain language.

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.

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 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 Left wants Thuringia to remain an open-minded state where people of every religion, origin, identity and skin color feel safe. To that end, places for people to meet are to be created, on a small and a large scale.

The Left wants an open Thuringia. All people should feel safe here. That applies to every religion, origin and skin color. The party wants to create places where people can meet.

The Left wants to promote a teaching and learning culture that is guided by human rights and takes a critical stance on racism and discrimination. To that end, materials are to be reviewed, data collected and contact points created.

The Left wants less discrimination in schools. Discrimination means someone is treated worse, for example because of where they come from. Textbooks should be checked for this. People affected should have places to get help.

The Left wants to raise the share of women among doctoral candidates, professors and leadership roles at Thuringia's universities. To do so, the cascade model is to be put into practice.

There are few women professors at the universities. The Left wants more women in high positions. A fixed rule should apply for this. As many women should work at the top as on the level below.

The Left wants to press at the federal level for broader adoption rights and a family law free of discriminatory provisions. It calls for a clear ban on medically unnecessary surgery on intersex children. In Thuringia, the state program for acceptance and diversity is to be implemented consistently.

The Left wants more rights for queer people. These are, for example, lesbian, gay and trans people. They should be able to adopt children more easily. Unneeded surgery on intersex children should be banned.

The Left wants to revise the state equality act so that women have better chances of promotion in the public sector. A fresh attempt at a parity law is meant to secure women's representation in Thuringia's parliaments. The state parliament would again get a committee on gender equality.

The Left wants a new law on equality. Women should move up more easily in public service jobs. A parity law should come. That means women should be equally represented in the parliaments.

The Left wants a law to better equip women's shelters and counseling services so that more women affected by violence are reached. The Istanbul Convention, a European treaty against violence toward women, is to be implemented further. Shelters are also planned for affected men and trans people.

The Left wants to protect women better from violence. Women's shelters and advice centers should get more money. Violent partners should have to leave the shared home more often. Men and trans people should get safe places too.

The Left wants to replace the principle of care for people with disabilities in the state constitution with the principle of self-determination. Their rights are to be developed further based on a review of the state inclusion act. Decisions are to be made with those affected, not over their heads.

People with disabilities should decide about their own lives. The Left wants to write this into Thuringia's constitution. Their rights should grow in the laws. Towns should involve their representatives more.

The Left wants to set up a police contact person for anti-queer crimes. The statistics on politically motivated crime would list racist and anti-queer offenses separately. Victim protection officers would be trained in dealing with LGBTIQ* people.

The police should get a contact person for anti-queer crimes. Anti-queer means aimed at lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and inter people. The police should count such crimes separately. The same goes for racist crimes. Victim protection officers should get training on this.

The SPD wants to make Thuringia an inclusive state and implement the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Accessibility is to apply in all areas of life, and local social infrastructure is to be geared toward participation.

People with disabilities should be able to take part everywhere. The SPD wants to remove barriers, in buildings and on the internet. Support should be close to home. The rights of people with disabilities should be written into Thuringia's constitution.

The SPD wants every law, regulation and budget expenditure to undergo a mandatory review of its effect on gender equality. Further steps include a separate state parliament committee on equality and a pilot project on gender budgeting.

The SPD wants to check every new law. The question is: does it help equality between women and men? The state parliament should again have its own committee for this. Public offices should offer free period products.

The SPD wants women to be represented in Thuringia's state parliament in line with their share of the population. To achieve this, it plans a parity law that stays within the legal framework.

There are fewer women than men in the state parliament. The SPD wants to change that. Half of the members should be women. The SPD wants to make a new law for this.

The SPD wants to secure funding for women's shelters permanently and make them a mandatory task for counties and independent cities. The Istanbul Convention on protecting women from violence is to be implemented more vigorously in Thuringia.

Women's shelters protect women from violence. The SPD wants them to always have enough money. Cities and counties should have to provide women's shelters. There should also be programs for offenders, so they do not become violent again.

The SPD wants to require publicly funded hospitals to offer abortions and to set up a state information portal. At the federal level, it advocates removing Section 218 from the Criminal Code.

Women should get information about abortion more easily. The state should set up a website for this. Hospitals that get public money should have to offer abortions. The SPD wants abortion to be removed from criminal law.

The SPD wants to make International Women's Day on March 8 a statutory public holiday in Thuringia. It is meant to draw attention to the fact that, in the party's view, gender equality has not yet been achieved.

March 8 is International Women's Day. The SPD wants this day to be a public holiday in Thuringia. The day should show: women and men are not yet equal.

The SPD wants to give the state program for acceptance and diversity more money, update it, and appoint a state commissioner for anti-discrimination and queer people. It also plans measures against anti-queer violence and services in health care, nursing care and for refugees.

The SPD wants to protect and support queer people better. Queer means, for example, lesbian, gay or trans. The state program for this should get more money. Police and courts should have fixed contact persons. No one should be treated worse in nursing care either.

The SPD wants to create an anti-discrimination law for Thuringia that also protects against unequal treatment by government bodies. This is meant to close gaps left by the federal General Equal Treatment Act (AGG).

The SPD wants a new law against discrimination in Thuringia. Discrimination means: someone is unfairly treated worse. The law should also apply when public offices treat someone unfairly. The SPD thinks the current federal law is not enough.