Hesse prohibits gender in administration. After Bavaria, the CDU-led government in Hesse also forbids administrative employees from using grammatical symbols.
Colons, internal Is, underscores or asterisks are no longer permitted to indicate multiple genders in a word. In Baden-Württemberg, the coalition of the Greens and CDU also decided to ban gender language in state authorities. The German Spelling Council last spoke out in mid-December 2023 against including special gender characters in the official German spelling rules.