Against All Odds: Activist Gauri Sawant Has Been Fighting For Transgender Rights All Her Life
“Don’t label a mother as a woman: a gender can’t decide motherhood.” – Gauri Sawant
Gauri Sawant, who is a transgender activist, is inspiring society to accept transgender people. She is also planning to start a home for sex workers’ children to stop them from being sold and pushed into prostitution. Her journey consists of struggles, challenges, and difficulties. Her story impacts thousands of people to accept their gender, respect the LGBTQ community, and welcome them into the mainstream.
Some of her accomplishments include:
In 2000, she founded the Sakhi Char Chowghi Trust to promote safe sex and provide counselling to trans people. She encouraged trans people to live a more meaningful life.
For 16 years, she fought for the rights of the five lakh trans people in India.
She was one of the pioneers behind the Supreme Court judgment that recognised transgender as the third sex.
In 2008, Gauri adopted five-year-old Gayatri, whose mother was HIV-infected, to save her from being sold into the infamous red light area of Sonagachi, Kolkata.
In 2014, she became the first trans person to file a petition with the Supreme Court for transgender rights of marriage and adoption.
She is also trying to appoint trans people as security persons outside the gate of Siddhivinayak temple.
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