Sweden Gets First Trans Minister in Female-Majority Cabinet
- Former principal Lina Axelsson Kihlblom named school minister
- 51-year-old seeks to ban private profits from schools
Magdalena Andersson presents ministers of her cabinet during a news conference in the Swedish parliament in Stockholm, Sweden, on Nov. 30.
Photographer: Soren Andersson/TT News Agency/AFP/Getty Images
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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.