Lina Axelson Kilblom, Sweden's first transsexual minister

"Transsexuals have always been, always will be and we are not ashamed anymore. We are the new normality ", she had written in 2018 in her article.

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 appointed yesterday 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 tells that she grew up as a girl inside a boy and that she underwent gender reassignment surgery when she was 25 years old.

"Transsexuals have always been, always will be and we are not ashamed anymore. We are the new normality ", she had written in 2018 in an article that was published by the 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 occupy 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.

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