From the article: As a worrying number of governments are actively trying to deny LGBTQ and trans people their place in society, it is heartening to see Belgiu

From the article: As a worrying number of governments are actively trying to deny LGBTQ and trans people their place in society, it is heartening to see Belgium’s political system embracing a member of the LGBTQ community as an equal. I know this is off-topic according to the hacker news guidelines, but the guidelines make an exception "... unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon."