Sweden's new education minister, Lina Axelson Kilblom, is the first transgender person to become a minister in the Nordic country, a year after Belgium appointed Europe's first deputy prime minister for transgender people. broadcasts the Swedish SVT.

Kilblom, 51, a former school principal and lawyer, has been appointed minister in the new Social Democrat government of Prime Minister Magdalena Andresson, who today officially became the first woman to head the government in Sweden.

In the book “Will You Love Me Now? Kilblom told how in the course of a boy she grew into a girl and at the age of 25 she decided to change her gender.

Transgender people, she says, "have always existed, they exist today and we are no longer ashamed."

We are the new normal, she told the public television SVT in 2018.

Kilblom is also divorced and the mother of two adopted children. She will be in charge of primary and secondary schools, and Education Minister Anna Extrom will be in charge of higher education.