AfD is transphobic and homophobic – Fact Check

Her comments coincide with a fresh poll by Insa for the Bild am Sonntag weekly newspaper, which puts the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), a party that has drawn criticism for taking swipes at LGBTQ+ rights, at a record 22%.

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.

Jörg Meuthen, co-leader of the party with Alexander Gauland, is seen as a relative moderate. After the election result he insisted the AfD did not accept racism or xenophobia, but in the same breath complained that "in some German cities, I struggle to find Germans on the streets".

The central actor here is the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD)[1], which was founded in 2013. The party is now achieving results of up to 28 percent at the state level, as well as 12.6 % in federal elections, making it currently the third-strongest political party in the Bundestag.

Alternative for Germany (German: Alternative für Deutschland, AfD [aːʔɛfˈdeː] ⓘ) is a far-right, right-wing populist, national conservative, and in parts völkisch nationalist political party in Germany. It has 151 members of the Bundestag and 15 members of the European Parliament.

"There's no money for pensioners, schools and the railway under the current government, but they now want to introduce nationwide gender identity advice centers for all those who don't know if they are male or female," the deputy leader of the far-right populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party Beatrix von Storch told the German Bundestag in November last year. Such attacks are "conscious strategic decisions" by the far right, says Sascha Krahnke*, an expert on transphobia and the far right at the Amadeu Antonio Foundation in Berlin, which campaigns against the far right, racism and antisemitism.

... According to the VBRG association for the victims of far-right violence, there is "a correlation between the vote for the far-right and the rise in violent attacks" of a homophobic or transphobic nature.

What is AfD? Alternative for Germany, AfD, is a right-wing extremist party in Germany, founded in 2013 in response to the European Union's handling of the Eurozone financial crisis.

In her paper, Judith Goetz tackles transphobia by analyzing the far-right German party Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) with a short excursion into Austrian politics. Goetz introduces the concept of transchauvinism as a variation on femo- and homonationalism, arguing that the involvement ...