Our minister of education, Lina Axelsson Kihlblom, is transgender. I just love that it's very rarely mentioned in the media. Not because it should be hidden in any way - and it's not - but because she should be in the news for what she's doing, not for her gender.

I had a great time 🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼

Love This addition to the channel! Great interview!

I really enjoyed this video! Great company & content...Mathilde is super sympathetic and down to earth 😃 hello from Denmark 🌸🌱

Great interview! Thanks to you both!

I like your new format ideas, I know you struggled with what to do ”next” but I think you’ve got something going on here (with the physichian video) ❤️

Mathilda is so beautiful inside and out. And I´m so happy my country is so tolerant.

Wonderful interview, thank you! Enjoy Gothenburg! I love that city! 🇸🇪

Thank you for this video! I am a trans woman myself and this was enlightening!

What an excellent video! Great conversation and insights. Love it!

It was the same but the opposite in my family! My mom always wanted a boy but she only got daughters so she was superexited when one of my siblings came out as a trans man.

Thank you so much! This topic is so interesting!

Well this is a nice surprise. I've been wondering about LGBT rights in other countries.

Lovely video. Hope to see more videos like these, you talking with interesting people about different aspects of life and about living in different parts of the world.

What a wonderfull woman. So great to hear her story. What a great episode on your channel. Thanks.

Wonderful of you to cover this! It would be interesting if you could have a Swedish trans guy as well as a guest at some point. 👏

this was such a nice wholesome conversation, can't wait to hear from mathilda in the future

Thank you for This video about This important subject. I have followed a friend Thrue This procedur and i really think its one of the hardest ones you can do mentally, and phychialy. I have so much respect for the souls Who dare to Take This painful and brave Journey 💪💪💪 ❤️❤️❤️ to have to pay that crazy amount Will make it a class issue in the states, Thats sad. And Thanks to Matilda, What a Beautiful and cool woman 🥰

Thank you so much for bringing up an important LGBTQ+ topic. Awesome!

I’m a 69 year old MF TS living in Albuquerque NM. I started transitioning in my late 30s and first experienced significant rejection by my family, but acceptance years later. I transitioned on the job at the AZ Attorney General’s Office, and faced severe discrimination, which was legal then. Cost is a prohibitive factor. I think the experience can be too fast for those who have the money, because life still goes on, and some mistakenly believe all problems disappear post surgery. I love Sweden and wish I could have transitioned there. Excellent dialogue between you two.

I think a lot of people have an idea about who they are going to meet and that can make it harder for them to enter a relationship with somebody who doesn't live up to their norms. I've seen a person actually reject a relationship for something as stupid as the guy being shorter than them, so it may just be shallow and not exactly transphobic. I'm 52 (and Swedish) and I think that in my age bracket there are a lot of people who are open enough that they are OK if their kids are trans or gay but maybe wouldn't themselves date a trans person.. but 30 years ago they were probably much more transphobic. I personally wouldn't care - if I find someone to be attractive and it's reciprocated then I'm good (until we discover what it's like to live together, but that's a different issue).

Loved this! As a person who vaciliates in gender experiance this was really cool!

Love this video, important topic. She is so cute!

We all have a right to be who we are! Bra video, vi behöver fler sådana!.

Tone Sekelius did the hormone treatment from the UK. It was shipped to her in Stockholm. She paid for all of it. Next month she's having her first surgery: Breast augmentation. That will be in Sweden.

Thank you for this. I’ve been wondering what life is like in Sweden for my LGTBQ brothers and sisters. I hope you will do more interviews with the Community 😉👍🏻🇸🇪🏳️‍🌈

from a trans man looking to move to sweden, thank you for spreading this info!!

Luv, luv, luv this beautiful/powerful/amazing woman... ✌💙

We love mathilda 💓

Very interesting video ☺️👍🏻! I’ve been wondering a few things but I can’t just walk up to or contact trans people and ask 😂, start prying in their personal lives 🤷‍♀️. And as a Swedish person, I’m happy to see my tax money helping out. I think it’s a nice thing. I’m very happy to see people being able to be who they are ❤️.

Thank you for interviewing Matilda I am a big watcher of her channel and I am transgender myself mail the female many people say that I don’t house but then there are others that say your parents perfectly once I get to say I don’t wear those on the Internet to my KZfaq but I seem to get a lot more positive responses from people to negative responses but I would like to thank you for doing this interview to help spread the word and get people to understand who we are as a person who is transgender and thanking Matilda for actually appearing on his videos I greatly appreciate because I like to see the education about those of us who are transgender out there I have known something was wrong with me ever since I was a child now late in my 50s I am finally transitioning I’ve gotta do so many abusive things to myself into so much abuse my entire life and I have multiple mental disabilities on top being transgender finally starting my journey and I am going to be looking at recently because it’s now going to take two years to get my bottom surgery thanks to covet and I’m going to look at with my doctor about getting an orchiectomy now so that way I can finally some problem with my testosterone blocker problems that I’m having them I’ve had to increase up to 150 mg of the medication to block testosterone I’m going to get the surgery to get rid of those things I hate so much and I’ve been trying to educate people with a lot of my stuff with regard to mental health and me and my transition I started over five years ago with my transition and I still am not able to get my bottom surgery because of my mental health has ended me up in the hospital now I’m perfectly stable and I’m able to get mine but now I find out because of Covid I have to wait two more years frustration Plus I have to get my laser hair removal done too I’m hoping my insurance will cover it because I have you the United States Medicare and Medicaid I invite all of your listeners to research Medicare and Medicaid and you’ll see how difficult it is to be able to afford to get all that we need to be who we normally are and that’s one thing I like about Sweden it is so much more how many other reasons why I like scream I would give anything to move Darren on a permit because United States right now it’s just too much of people stepping on the backs bother to get up top and not even caring about the others that are below we have only two classes of people top one percent of people who are rich and large corporate owners and then we have the bottom class which is everybody else there used to be a middle class but not anymore this country is going downhill and I want to get out of here as quick as I can I’m on with my wife and we would love to live in Sweden because it’s quality of life is so much better there and I’m kind of an introvert myself so I feel I was sitting in Sweden wouldn’t mind living in Gothenburg

Thanks for this video. I spent a few years with the Swedish system for wondering about being trans about 15 years ago when I was young but eventually they said I did not have the diagnosis and I was too scared to transition anyway because I probably wouldn’t be as passable as you being almost 2 meters tall. While I don’t have depression anymore and live a happy life as a man part of me will always wonder. I’m attracted to women and married to a woman and while I play video games as a female character I can’t help that part of me would like to be them even as I am attracted to them. To some extent I think my confusion has to do with not thinking I can really be attractive as a man even if my wife says I am and I’ve had other girls saying that too when I was younger but I never felt it.

Så intressant! Har alltid varit fascinerad av transkvinnor. Tycker de är så inspirerande och vackra, och starka!

"it's in the jeans" is a very clever pun. 🙂

Love you!!!!!

heavy subject, but good interview and guest

I live in Finland; and even though the health care system pays for the surgery, many girls went to private clinics and paid the whole bill from their own pockets. They say that the surgical result is so much more better with those foreign surgeons, but then again, a Finnish surgeon said that they come to her with their complications. The qualifications for the foreign surgeries were also higher as for the health and perhaps age, so it makes comparing surgeons really difficult. American people were either super-hostile or super-friendly. Perhaps part of the American mindset is to be kind to strangers whereas in Nordic countries people think that the state should help everyone and if you are not OK, then you are to blame.

Stefan - Thanks for representing USA well-open minded, smart and wonderful. 🎉

Fckin hell! Great work😄😄😄👍

I been living in San Francisco California since 2020 and I'm 62 years old

In the U.S... some states are "Informed consent" states, where all you do is sign a paper basically saying "I know what these Hormones will do to me and I'm ready for it." In other states, you need notes from 2 different therapists and an Endochrinologist who's willing to prescribe hormones. Also you can be stuck with the same gender marker for life because of the laws in the state you were born in. Of course that also depends on the state's individual laws.

I think preferences are super weird. I would love to be able to be attracted to a lot of people that I am not attracted to. Like having a physical type even if you are a cis and heterosexual person like me just complicates things, and yet a lot of us do. When it comes to sexuality and emotions it's always way more complicated than one would like it to be.

Am I tripping or is that “clipping here” very Swedish sounding? 0:48

Welcome to Gothenburg!

The Queen is here

I'm planning on getting my face feminization done pretty soon as well

I just wish that I was living in SAWDEN and I had my SRS surgery done on June 14th 2021 and then I got my breasts implants done on May 23rd 2022 here in San Francisco California

Hi Stefan I was just thinking of you. Gothenburg is nice but I believe the weather is better in Stockholm for the moment. 😁So much rain in the westcoast

I am from Sweden, and the first time I heard about a transgender person was probably in around 2004 or so. It was something that was quite new to me, so I was a bit surprised to hear about it, but I also got curious about it. It turned out that it is often something that people decide to have because they feel highly uncomfortable with their birth sex, so it makes a lot of sense to have a transition.

Du är en vacker människa, nu i formen av en kvinna, heder till dig!! //Kärlek från Borås

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Stephan, we can figure out a collaboration? I'm 51 and transitioned at Christmas in 2020. I knew since 2006 but was scared. Now with lawmakers trying to make +being transgender+ a crime (a felony), I worry that instead of retiring, I'll have to emigrate to another country for my safety.

Might be a little late on the discussion, but I just found this video now. I wanted to give my thoughts on the last bit of the video discussing being attracted to trans people. I hope it is not a controversial thing to say, but I don't think anyone has a right to be found attractive by anyone else. I think there is a difference between not wanting to date a trans person vs treating them with respect. I think someone can absolutely be an ally to the trans community and fully support trans people, while simultaneously not being interested in dating someone who is trans. In my opinion, being sexually compatible is an important part of a relationship. And if some person does not feel they are sexually compatible with particular genitals, then I don't see it as transphobic for that person to end the relationship. I think it would be the same in a relationship between two cisgendered people who are not sexually compatible. Of course, there is something to be said about how that discussion takes place. But simply not being interested in somebody due to what genitals they have is not a transphobic thing on its own. Nobody has an obligation to sleep with someone for any reason. As long as the person treats trans people with respect and accepts them for who they are, then I don't think it is inherently transphobic to not be interested in dating them. I'm sure we all have people in our lives who are perfectly lovely people but we have no interest in dating them/sleeping with them. And I'm sure a lot of us have been with someone who we might be initially attracted to, but then they say something or do something or we learn something that makes us no longer attracted to them. Generally speaking, I don't hear criticism of those situations if the person is cis. I don't see why it is any different if they happen to be trans.

Mathilda is so naturelly beautiful

I was told wait lines in Germany are very long for healthcare for trans people I'm an American already on medication for being trans. I really want to move to Europe to live a better life

19:16 True! Sat in my pub, reading the paper after work. Beautiful young girl was at the far end, obviously a friend of the bartender. The blokes at the bar were nearly breaking their neck. She had legs all the way up to her long hair. She was being measured the best they could. When I'd finish the paper, I joined the conversation, and the young girl takes an interest. Eventually she says something, and when the blokes hear her voice, you can instantly feel the change in the atmosphere. Eyes flying, asking silently. One mouths the question to me - Is it a man?? I signal - I don't know - and I don't care. The funny thing is the boys got ANGRY. With themselves, I believe! And each other? They felt stupid and ashamed. Boys will be boys, so the need to establish whom of them had been the MOST interested When the hierachy was established, they could direct their anger sat each other. It just came out as "friendly" teasing. She shifts to the seat next to me (safety) and we talked and had fun for an hour. So I tell my grown up son, I've made a trans friend. He asks her name. Let's call her Charlot. "Ahr, Mum. You know Charlot!" "That's what I'm telling you - I met her last night." "Come on! "he goes "Can't you remember the sleep over, when Michael and John was here?" I pretend to remember that specific one, out of hundred sleep overs. "Yah. But it's Michael, Mum!" "What's Michael?" "SHE is Michael. ...Eh... Well, just that she isn't- she was" Guess who was felling stupid then?? We were in stiches 🤣🤣 Charlot too, when I told her. Of course she knew who I am ALL the time, and forgave me that I hadn'ẗ recognized her.

Love this discussion and her story! ☀ Such an important topic and happy to hear she had such good support. The only thing I disagree she mentioned is the idea that not wanting to date a transgender person is transphobic. Of course I agree that it can definitely be the case that it's caused by transphobia. But I think there are a lot of factors involved that affects that decision. One example is wanting biological kids with your partner, which would be more difficult or even impossible with a transperson who has gone through hormone therapy or surgery. Of course you can adopt but I don't think it's a transphobic reason to not prefer that in a relationship. In addition, I’m a straight girl and for me sex is a very important part of a relationship. Having sex with a man with a vagina would not be enjoyable for me, as I'm attracted to the male sex. Ofc they could have gone through surgery and if I loved the person I would want to try it out and see what happens, but I disagree that is it’s just a ”preference” - it involves more than just looks ☺ (in my opinion) I think it's super important to be open minded, but in the end if it's not for you I also think it's fair.

So Stefan... what's going on with the hair?

Actually my health insurance will covers my srs just have go though hoops I getting my hrt covered they wanted me live as a female for a year, have to go though drs then they'll cover top and bottom surgery

Who cares? Not I! (as a Swede) I can't comprehend the difficulty to be in the wrong gender. I respect everyone who they say they are without any doubt! Punkt!!!

Mathilda is a very beautiful and elegant woman 👍

All you Americans watching this, How close to a native speaking american is her pronunciation? Obviously is pretty good but I've always wondered what it sounds like for native speakers and perhaps it's really easy to tell that she isn't living in the US?

Mathilde. Thank you for your so enlightening and informative presentation. You are very beautiful. Like all Swedes your English is impeccable just like my Swedish roomate, Mats

Omg 3 years only i have been on the waiting list for 4 years for vaginoplasty .and i live in Sweden .

I'm a straight man and I would be with her she's so beautiful

she's cute ^ ^

How about a similar interview with the experience of gay people as well?

Göteborg. Inte Gothenburg!

I have seen so ,so many vids by you. and i was not a sub. wtf? Ok now that's fixed. I just feel dumb right now.

This is honestly the most convincing trans-formation I've ever seen. Well done and very beautiful.

Is good that's long.

🥰🤗👍.....

Think 🤔 it's easy in Sweden Than other countries. It's not allowed. Go and share with education others as well in school university and so on. Love yourself but don't judge Take care

I was thinking of moving to Sweden at one point but as a Trans woman I don't know if I should or not.

I think that there are still a lot of transfobism out there in sweden. Its getting better, but i think we have a long way to go.

I am a transwoman myself. Trans and lbtq rights are human rights.

Swedes and a lot of countires have better things to do than worry about things like this that Americans do. Plus they don't have the religeous element that American society has.

No way

Adam apple LOL

On Facebook there are a lot of "jokes" in comic-form about couples that have been together like forever and one part - usually the woman - tells her boyfriend that she was born as a man and his reaction is like way way out there - his hair stands on edge and his eyes grow big an he's just put off in any way the person who drew it could think of to illustrate that fact. I don't get that at all. If you are transgender and have a sex-change, you are that gender full out - or am I wrong?

Wow så vacker hon är 🥰

Honestly... I dont really care about rights..... I unfortunatly is to old to change my gender.... I have never feelt like im a "man", but stil in a way... I am a man.... this is hard to say... I would rather be a woman is what I want to say I guess.....

Is it transphobic to not want to date a trans woman?

They the transformers even look better than American wwomen.

The big difference between the United States vs everywhere else is fairly simple, we have self determination, self reliance and individual independence. Now, the caveat to all this "freedom" is whether or not the populous is properly represented by their elected officials and if they educated themselves enough to fully understand the choices they make. The US was founded as a country made up of individual, sovereign states, united as a union that is governed by a congressional body, made up of representatives from each state that are chosen thru election by the citizens of that particular, sovereign state. To be part of this Union, each state, its representatives and its citizens must acknowledge the truth that there are certain rights that we are born with. If you are born of this world you should have freedom of speech, freedom to practice your religion, freedom to not have your person, your papers, your home searched without cause by a government official, freedom to bitch about, gather together on public property, and protest against the government for percieved flaws or issues the public feels should be addressed. There are many more very important rights as well but im trying to stay on topic. Our 10th amendment to our Constitution states badically, in my own words, that the individual, sovereign states must abide to, and protect their citizens access to, the freedoms and protections of the amendments of our Constitution and any other laws, ordinances, procedures, policies, etc, are up to the individual state and its citizenry to implement, get it? Each state and its citizens get to make up its own laws, procedures and methods of governence as long as they dont violate the birthrights laid out in our Constitutional amendments. So i am Trans and i live in California. California is a state where we have a rule for certain medical procedures and practices called "informed consent". Because of this rule, i can tell my doctor that i wish to start hormonal treatments to feminize my body and start the process to transition from male to female. All my doctor has to do is inform me of the risks and expectations of that process and then can perscribe me the hormones i need to begin that process. I dont need the governments permission. The government is not a doctor and shouldnt be involved in my personal, medical issues. That is between my doctor and me. Now other states say differently, as is that states right. Take the abortion ruling that has been mishandled by our supposedly free and unbiased media. The federal government has no right to interfere with a states right to ban or legalize abortion, hence the supreme (federal) court ruling. The federal government, thru the supreme courts original ruling on roe v wade, to "legalize" abortion thru all 50 states, was a direct violation of the 10th amendment, a states right to implement laws that fit its citizens desires. Here in California and in New York and many other states, abortion is still legal because the citizens of California wish it to be. But in other states like Texas, Utah, Wyoming, etc, abortion is not legal because that is what those citizens in those states want. If someone in Texas wants a abortion, they have to just go to another state. If they cant afford that there are private entities that will help facilitate the travel and whatnot is needed to get that person to a state where the orocedure can be done. If some adult individual doesnt agree with the laws of the state they live in, and they cant organize support to change that law, that adult person has the right to move to another state. If they cant afford it, oh well. Get a better job or network with others or whatever. Freedom doesnt mean easy. Freedom means freedom and sometimes its hard but we live in a country that guarantees your basic human freedoms for every citizen, not your personal ideas of freedom. I dont agree with so many of the laws here in California and i have the right to move, but i want access to my hormones without years of therapy so i stay and put up with it, its my freedom to choose and i choose to stay. Some here in Cdlifornia dont like abortion or legalized cannabis so they have the freedom to stay or move to a state that more suits their ideals. Thats freedom. In Sweden, you basically have to ask the government for permission to transition. That is not freedom. Every countries citizenry thinks they have freedom, or they are told by their government that they are free and they better not complain about it or off to the reeducation camp they go.

Its not a big deal here. LBGT isnt something we talk about that often anymore. It literally didnt even cross my mind until my grandmother asked basic(almost a bit rude) questions about my friend whos gay. We have come along way the last 20-30 years

What I don't understand is why ain't the guy playing with his hair as much as the girl?

Why should I pay for someone's hormone and sex change. It's ridiculous! My taxes shouldn't finance that, period. It's also super expensive.

Congrats to Everyone who is Early and Found this Comment 🌟

I concur with Matilda: if you find someone attractive but change your mind about it the moment you realize that person is transgender, you're transphobic.

Кадык все портит.

Where the f.ck this world goes to???

Why is he so hot, got me feeling some type of way

"It's free in Sweden." Lol, what's your tax rate there in Sweden?

You are beautiful and keep doing what you are doing One thing only, remove (the apple) from the throat, only men who have this

Do trans in Iran or Middle East Justice will be served

I am all for transgenders, but it should not be forced upon kids, like in the daycares in Sweden where you can't say he or she anymore, everything must be gender neutral.

I would rather see that tax money go to people that have cancer or are poor honestly speaking.