Sweden just appointed a trans person as minister, for the first time in the country’s history: Lina Axelsson Kihlblom.

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  4. I bet it’s the woman with the beard and dashing mustache in the back.

    All jokes aside. Good luck.

  5. How do we know? Usually people don’t go around a gender stamp on their head shouting and advertising who they are.

  7. Awesome! Almost as if these people are completely normal functional members of society! Who would have expected that!

  9. >Sweden Gets First Trans Minister in Female-Majority Cabinet

    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-11-30/sweden-names-first-trans-minister-in-female-majority-cabinet

    >Sweden appointed the first minister who has gone through a gender transition, as Magdalena Andersson announced her new Social Democrat government on Tuesday.

    >Lina Axelsson Kihlblom, 51, who was born a man and transitioned in the 1990s, was named school minister in Andersson’s new government, which consists of 12 women and 11 men.

    >“This is not a big deal, although it is important to me and many others who are experiencing the same issues,” Axelsson Kihlblom said in an interview with Swedish public radio after the appointment. “If I, in any small way, can be a role model or a trailblazer I am happy about that.”

    >As a school principal in one of Sweden’s most deprived areas, Axelsson Kihlblom became known in her home country when her successful work was chronicled in a televised documentary series. In her new role, she will seek to implement a ban on private profits from schools.

    >“Society needs to take control over schools,” Axelsson Kihlblom said at a press conference after her appointment. “Every student’s right to knowledge must be in focus, and not share price movements or religious beliefs.”

    >Andersson, who became Sweden’s first female prime minister on Monday, considers changes to Sweden’s highly privatized school system as one of her main priorities.

    >In 2015, Axelsson Kihlblom published an autobiography, and in an interview with public broadcaster SVT, she described realizing at the age of five that she was a girl in a boy’s body.

    >“I discovered early on that in order to be accepted I had to choose to live on life on the outside and another on the inside,” she said. “I played a game to be accepted, but I knew that one day I would blossom, and that was my salvation.”

  14. We somehow went from wanting less men in office to…now appointing more men in office by essentially blackmailing women into thinking they are bigots if they speak out against this.

    It’s gonna be real akward when transgender starts breaking class ceiling that biological women haven’t. I wonder how that will be made into news.

  16. If we’re all safe to assume that she was appointed minister on grounds of competency, then more power to her. If not, well..

  22. its actually a fuckin cryin shame Muslims lost to the Franks in the west and Pols in the east.

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