Anette Trettebergstuen

Anette Trettebergstuen (born 25 May 1981) is a Norwegian politician representing the Labour Party, who served as Minister of Culture and Equality in Støre's Cabinet from 2021 to 2023.

On the local level she was a member of Hamar municipal council from 1999 to 2005.

She was the deputy leader of Europeisk Ungdom, the Norwegian youth wing of the European Movement, from 2001 to 2002.

She was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Hedmark in 2005.

She is the only openly lesbian politician in the Norwegian Parliament.

Trettebergstuen was born in Hamar.

She was elected to the Storting in 2005, representing Hedmark.

She has also served as the party's spokesperson for cultural affairs.

In the Storting, Trettebergstuen was a member of the Enlarged Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence and the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence from 2005 to 2009.

She has been re-elected since.

She was member of the Standing Committee on Labour and Social Affairs from 2009 to 2015, and the Standing Committee on Family and Cultural Affairs from 2015 to 2021.

While being part of the Støre's Cabinet between 2021 and 2023, Even Eriksen deputised in her place.

She has also served as the leader of the Labour Party's women's network since 2019, succeeding Anniken Huitfeldt.

Following the 2021 election, she was mentioned as a favorite candidate to become minister of culture and equality.

In February 2024, the National Authority for Investigation and Prosecution of Economic and Environmental Crime in Norway announced that they had launched an investigation into Trettebergstuen's conduct which had led to her resignation as minister of culture and equality.

Trettebergstuen herself stated that she would comply with the investigation.

She was appointed minister of culture and equality on 14 October 2021 in Støre's Cabinet.

She attended the Norwegian film premiere for The Worst Person in the World the day after her appointment.

Trettebergstuen attended a congress meeting by the Norwegian Olympic and Paralympic Committee and Confederation of Sports, where she held a speech and made several statements of promises to the sport industry, notably to take action of the backlog of sporting facilities, give full VAT compensation, she would be available to listen and learn among other things.

Trettebergstuen also warned that the risk of closure due to COVID-19 was something she hoped would not happen, and added that the danger was over yet.

Trettebergstuen called Dagbladet's revelations of eating disorder struggles within the cross-country skiing sport shocking and unacceptable.

She advised that she would be talking to the sports president about the matter, and discuss how the issue could be dealt with and set more focus on it.

She notably said: "When body and body weight are seen in the context of performance, there is a fine line between when it comes from being healthy to getting sick."

In early November, while in Copenhagen for the Nordic Council, she called for a united Nordic front against international tech giants, such as Google and Facebook.

She notably cited that tech giants removed what they didn't like and doesn't pay taxes, further adding that they also challenged the free press.

She also motioned to do like France, who taxes tech giants through OECD.

Trettebergstuen also said that Petter Stordalen's proposal of a Nordic tax regime was not the way to go when it came to other solutions.

On 16 November, Trettebergstuen announced that she would look into the possibility of adding a third gender to identification and similar papers in a law proposal.

She promised that the work on the proposal would start as quickly as possible, but was uncertain of how long it would take.

On 27 November, Trettebergstuen stated that no representatives of the Norwegian state or government would attend the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar.

She also said that she would decline an invitation if she was given one.

She noted the recent arrest of two NRK journalists as one of the reasons, and cited that the government would be heavily involved in said case.

She also expressed disappointment over FIFA's reaction to the arrest of the two journalists.

On 14 December, Trettebergstuen attended a press conference alongside Trygve Slagsvold Vedum, Jan Christian Vestre and Hadia Tajik to present the government's economic COVID-19 measures.

Regarding her field of responsibility, Trettebergstuen that an extra 1,1 billion NOK would be given to the cultural sector as a part of the government's compensation scheme.

Trettebergstuen expressed her disappointment when it was announced that 12 medieval documents from the era of Norway's union with Denmark would not be handed over to Norway to be put on temporary display at the National Library of Norway.

She said: "There are exciting plans the National Library has for the dissemination of medieval history, and it is regrettable if the ambitions have to be reduced because the Danish team does not give access to important historical objects".

She went on to say: "We must be able to facilitate communication through the relevant institutions across national borders, regardless of who formally "owns" the various objects".

On 13 January 2022, the government announced a lift of a few COVID-19 measures, which also included a few changes.

Trettebergstuen announced that the number of people that can participate at events or gatherings would be put to 200.