Laxmi Narayan Tripathi

Founder Trustee & Chairperson, Astitva

Ms Laxmi Narayan Tripathi, is a transgender rights activist from India. She is an actress and a professional Bharatanatyam dancer and has starred in several TV shows and movies. Ms Tripathi is the first transgender person to represent Asia Pacific at the United Nations in 2008. She is the Founder Trustee and Chairperson of Astitva, the Organisation for Support and Development of Sexual Minorities. She is also a member of the core committee set up by the Indian Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment for Transgender Rights and Upliftment. Ms Tripathi has played an important role in the 2014 India Supreme Court ruling that recognised transgender as a third gender on all documents.

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