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Petra De Sutter, Trans Woman, Deputy Prime Minister in Belgium.

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Oddly, I find myself doing two blogs in one day, but I can not hide my excitement in seeing that Belgium’s new Deputy Prime Minister is a trans woman. 

Petra De Sutter, I salute you – you are one heck of a woman! 

Whilst in the UK the TERF’s are attacking trans peoples right to exist – in Belgium, there is no headline that Petra is trans. 

She is accepted. 

This is probably going to be the shortest blog I will ever do because I can ask no more than acceptance.

Except of course in the UK because while Petra becomes Deputy Prime Minister of a sovereign state, a minority of the UK public, (okay – TERF’s) are discussing very loudly in which toilet I should pee. 

https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/10/01/petra-de-sutter-transgender-belgium-government-deputy-prime-minister-green-party/

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Steph Richards (she/her) is a 74-year-old human rights activist, intersectional feminist, and recipient of a 2023 Inspirational Women of Portsmouth Award. Holding a Gender Recognition Certificate and "post op", she is the founder and Chair of Translucent.Org.UK, which was named LGBT Organisation of the Year at the 2022 National Diversity Awards. Steph was also shortlisted as a Positive Role Model for Gender at the 2025 National Diversity Awards. Steph’s leadership spans political, healthcare, and community advocacy. She served as the Women’s and LGBT Officer for the Portsmouth Labour Party (2021–2024), co-founded the Women’s Action Network (Portsmouth), and is a former CEO of a women’s health charity. A passionate champion for women's healthcare, she possesses extensive expertise in baby loss awareness, actively defends UK abortion rights and is a member of "Women Against the Far-Right". Calling out VAWG, Steph has researched and written about 125 women and girls killed by a man. A prominent voice in national media and debate, Steph has been featured live on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour, Anti Social, Good Morning Britain, Times Radio, LBC, GB News, and Channel 4 News. In 2023, she debated trans human rights alongside Harvard biologist Dr. Carole Hooven at a prominent US university event.

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