Gender-neutral title requirements for equality officers: no exclusion of male candidates

The Federal Constitutional Court (BVerfG) refused to accept the constitutional complaint, thereby leaving the lower court's judgment in force and effectively ruling against the complainant. The dispute concerned a challenge to a statutory provision in the Saxony-Anhalt Constitutional Law that mandated the gender-neutral linguistic equalization of official titles and function descriptions, specifically questioning whether the application of this rule to the office of equality officer (Gleichstellungsbeauftragten) unlawfully restricted male candidates from holding the position. Relying on the principle of non-derogation from existing fundamental rights, the Court found no violation of the complainant's rights, noting that the constitutional language requirement did not bar men from exercising the function. The decision was issued as a non-acceptance order (Nichtannahmebeschluss) based on § 90(1) and § 93d(1) Sentence 3 of the Federal Constitutional Court Act (BVerfGG), with the lower instance decision identified as the operative legal outcome.