Former Belgian Deputy Prime Minisgter Petra de Sutter via Flickr Belgium’s former Deputy Prime Minister and current rector of Ghent University, Petra De Sutter, has announced she will not participate in an upcoming trade delegation to the United States. De Sutter, who is Europe’s first openly transgender national minister, cited concerns about President Donald Trump’s recently reinstated policies on gender and identity. Speaking to Belgian media, De Sutter explained that her presence could risk creating a diplomatic incident. “I simply can’t go there, or I’ll get into trouble… Or I’ll cause some kind of incident, and I have no interest in that,” she stated, declining to elaborate further. A long-standing member of Belgium’s Green Party and former Member of the European Parliament, De Sutter has…
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