AfD is transphobic and homophobic - Fact Check True

Berlin: (hib/SAS) Die AfD-Fraktion will das „Transsexuellengesetz erhalten und den Schutz von Menschen mit Geschlechtsdysphorie verbessern“. In einem entsprechend betitelten Antrag (20/8203(Dokument, öffnet ein neues Fenster)) fordert sie ...

For years, rights campaigners have come up against the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) and its opposition to marriage equality, safe community spaces and access to healthcare and reproductive justice.

This party is among the most extreme in Europe. To protect our democracies, liberal parties must urgently change their tactics, says Cas Mudde, author of The Far Right Today

It said nothing about gay rights, focusing instead on the assailant, who authorities said had once tried to join the Islamic State terrorist group. “Protect Berliners from violent Islamists!” the statement began.

Alice Weidel says rightwing nationalist party is a ‘liberal-conservative’ force

The German press has revealed homophobia and extremism exchanges between elected officials of Alternative for Germany (AfD) that show the divisions within a party losing momentum.

People like Karsten and Sven aren’t alone in supporting the party. There is even a German term for gay support of the far right: “homonationalism.” A 2016 survey from “MEN,” a monthly magazine for gay men, showed that 17% of respondents openly supported the AfD, higher than the national average.

... In Alice Weidel stellt die AfD eine lesbische Kanzlerkandidatin – und dennoch fiel die Partei immer wieder mit homophoben Aussagen und Ansichten auf. Laut dem Verband "Queere Vielfalt" verfolgt die AfD sogar eine zutiefst homophobe Politik.

The first thing that stands out when scrolling through the AfD’s party program is that their gender policy is strongly linked to the protection of the white, heteronormative family and demographic considerations.

Homosexuals (AHO) embody an emerging part of the AfD, that fits homonationalism · and queerness into the existing anti-immigrant agenda through protectionist rhetoric. The party as a whole both is homophobic in policy, and claims to protect · homosexuals from the supposed homophobia of Islam and immigrants.

With the AfD polling as the second-most popular party nationwide, Gabriel_Nox Koenig is clear about the implications not just for trans and non-binary people, but for other marginalized groups as too. "All the progress that has been hard fought against forms of discrimination such as sexism, homophobia, transphobia or racism in the past decades would be reversed by the AfD.

Angesichts der hohen Umfragewerte für die AfD warnt Gabriel Nox Koenig vor den Folgen nicht nur für Trans- und nicht-binäre Menschen, sondern auch für andere marginalisierte Gruppen. "Alle Fortschritte, die in den letzten Jahrzehnten gegen Diskriminierungsformen wie Sexismus, Homophobie, Transphobie oder Rassismus hart erkämpft wurden, würden von der AfD rückgängig gemacht, entsprechende Gesetze abgeschafft.