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How India Embraces The ‘Third Gender’: Laxmi Narayan Tripathi at ‘Women in The World’

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At WITW, activist Laxmi Narayan Tripathi revealed how she successfully fought to convince India’s Supreme Court to recognize a “third gender” in 2014.

Lizzie Crocker
Lizzie Crocker
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