| 1. Laxmi Narayan Tripathi is an Indian transgender rights activist, dancer, and writer. |
| 2. She serves as the Acharya Mahamandaleshwar or Chief of Kinnar Akhara to promote Hinduism and support the LGBTQ+ community. |
| 3. She comes from an orthodox Brahmin family background. |
| 4. In 1998, she made the decision to live as a Hijra. |
| 5. Tripathi established the 'DAI'M Welfare Society' in 2002 and the 'Astitiva Trust' in 2007. |
| 6. In 2014, she filed a petition to legally acknowledge the third gender in India. |
| 7. She extended her support to Ashok Row Kavi in challenging section 377 of the Indian Penal Code. |
| 8. She was honored with the title 'Indian of the Year' in 2017. |
| 9. She was a contestant on the reality show Bigg Boss in 2011. |
| 10. Her efforts helped the first Transgender team scale Friendship Peak in the Himalayas in 2020. |
| 11. She is a founder member of the Asia Pacific Transgender Network and the national network for transgender, hijra, kinnars, and aravanis. |
| 12. She represented the Asia Pacific region in the UNAIDS civil society task force. |
| 13. She was a key impleader in the NALSA vs Union of India case which awarded transgender equal rights in India. |
| 14. During India’s HIV/AIDS crisis in the 1990s, she was one of the first activists to demand that the national anti-AIDS program include hijras as a separate category. |
| 15. In 2008, she became the first transgender person to represent Asia Pacific at the United Nations. |
