Discrimination
... entails degradation, contempt, disregard, exclusion or violence against persons on the basis of factual or attributed group-specific characteristics such as gender (which includes both legal gender and identification gender), sexual orientation/identity, race, disability/illness, religion/belief, age or on the basis of further individual differentiation characteristics (e.g. appearance, institutional membership in an organisation).
(Directive on Discrimination, Sexualised Violence and Bullying of the UoC)
General Equal Treatment Act Explanatory video, Federal Anti-Discrimination Agency (german)