Hijra Laxmi Narayan Tripathi First Ever Exclusive Interview with Devang Bhatt

Hijra Laxmi Narayan Tripathi First Ever Exclusive Interview Video with Devang Bhatt. Laxmi Narayan Tripathi (known as Laxmi, sometimes transliterated as Lakshmi) is a transgender rights activist, Hindi film actress and Bharatanatyam dancer in Mumbai, India. She was born in 1979 in Thane. Laxmi is a hijra. She is the first transgender person to represent Asia Pacific in the UN in 2008. At the assembly, she spoke of the plight of sexual minorities. "People should be more humane. They should respect us as human beings and consider our rights as transgenders," she said. "Me Hijra Me Laxmi," the new English translation of her autobiography launched at the New Delhi World Book Fair was one book she says she never imagined writing. The book is already in publication in Marathi and Gujarati. In Big Boss Tripathi said that she had been in a relationship with a man for two years. She has two adopted children. She told Project Bolo that she got breast augmentation but did not receive any hormone therapy. She told them she got a lot of backlash from the hijra community for her speaking out and meeting Salman Rushdie.