PraiseDe Sutter's appointment in Belgium drew praise from Europe's LGBTQ community.Terry Reintke, a lesbian German member of the European Parliament, congratulated De Sutter on Twitter.
Reintke expressed De Sutter will be missed, calling her a "wonderful colleague.""Petra, you have been such an inspiration to work with.
We will miss you," she tweeted. Cianán Russell, senior policy officer of the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association of Europe, also congratulated De Sutter in a tweet.Russell praised De Sutter "for constantly showing us a path in which trans people can be people first, valuable as whole persons, with transness as just one piece in the whole."All Out Executive Director Matt Beard called her.