Sweden: Lina Axelson Kilblom, the country’s first transgender minister

The new Swedish Minister for Schools, Lina Axelson Kilblom, today became the first transgender person to become a minister in this Scandinavian country, a year after this was done in Belgium, for the first time in Europe.

The 51-year-old former school principal and lawyer was today appointed to the new Social Democratic government of Prime Minister Magdalena Anderson, who officially became Sweden’s first female Prime Minister today.

In a book she published in 2015 (“Will you love me now?”), Axelson Kilblom recounts that she grew up as a girl in a boy’s body and underwent gender reassignment surgery when she was 25 years old.

“Transsexuals have always existed, will always exist and we are no longer ashamed. We are the new normality,” she wrote in an 2018 article published on public television SVT.

Divorced and the mother of two adopted children, her portfolio includes primary and secondary schools, while Education Minister Anna Ekstrom is in charge of higher education.

In October 2020, MEP Petra de Souter was appointed Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Public Administration of the Belgian Government. It is the first declared transgender to hold a ministerial post in Europe.

Taiwanese Minister Ondrej Tang, who was appointed in 2016, is considered the first member of the government in the world who had openly declared that she is transgender.

Source: ΑΠΕ-ΜΠΕ

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Source From: Capital

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