Gopi Shankar Madurai at WorldPride Madrid Summit, Spain (June 2017)
Born
(1991-04-13) 13 April 1991 (age 33)
Madurai, India
Education
American College, Madurai
Occupation(s)
Writer, Speaker, Equal Rights Activist
Awards
The Commonwealth Nations Youth Worker Award 2016, HCR Queen's Young Leader Award 2017.
Gopi Shankar Madurai (born 13 April 1991)[1] is an Indian equal rights and Indigenous rights activist.[2] Shankar was one of the youngest, and the first openly intersex and genderqueer statutory authority and one of the candidates to contest in 2016 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election.[3][4][5][6] Shankar is also the founder of Srishti Madurai Student Volunteer Collective.[7] Shankar's work inspired the Madras High Court (Madurai Bench) to direct the Government of Tamil Nadu to order a ban on forced sex-selective surgeries on intersex infants.[8] In December 2017, Shankar was elected to the executive board of ILGA Asia.[9][10][11] In August 2020, the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment appointed Shankar as the South Regional representative in the National Council for Transgender Persons.[12]
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