Laxmi Narayan Tripathi, a eunuch from India, is fighting for the rights and respect of the transgender community around the globe at the ongoing high-level UN meeting on HIV/AIDS. For this purpose, Tripathi has met and interacted with a number of ambassadors, diplomats, world leaders and social activists who have gathered for this UN HIV/AIDS Meet at its headquarters in New York. Laxmi Narayan Tripathi wants to underscore and thereby move the concerned authorities as well as the general public to give eunuchs their basic rights and respect as a human being.

 

'I am raising the main issues of sex workers and sexual minorities who are treated with total disrespect. I am trying to bring the attention of the whole world to the issue of sexual minority,’ stated Tripathi at the UN AIDS Meet. She then added that she wants people to be more humane and respectful towards eunuchs rather then considering them as just transgender. Laxmi Narayan Tripathi was born into an Indian Brahmin family in 1979 and holds the credit of being the only eunuch in the UN's Civil Society Task Force on HIV/AIDS. Tripathi added that fighting for the rights of the eunuchs worldwide is her mission in life. Laxmi Narayan Tripathi runs an NGO in Mumbai by the name Astitva.