The Rhineland-Palatinate Greens’ parliamentary group leader, Pia Schellhammer, is calling for an end to the “culture war rhetoric” surrounding the issue of gender prohibition. “If you think from people’s everyday lives, then a colon or an underscore isn’t the topic. That should be available to everyone,” the Greens politician told the German press agency in Mainz.
The concerns people have about daily life are, she said, often about how they will pay their rent. “Is their job still secure? Do they have a daycare spot? How do they get from A to B? Does the train run?” Schellhammer emphasized. “So why are centrist parties talking about the gender-prohibition issue?”
Culture State Minister Wolfram Weimer (nonpartisan) is against gender-sensitive language with an asterisk or the Binnen-I and has officially banned it from a government agency (TheColu.mn reported). He also urged all publicly funded institutions, such as museums or broadcasters, to refrain (TheColu.mn reported).
The German Council for Culture recently spoke out against a ban on gendering in art, culture, and media: linguistic diversity belongs to cultural diversity. It is “a way to reflect and reach the population in its diversity” (reported by TheColu.mn).
