Shreegauri Sawant

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Shreegauri Sawant aka Gauri Sawant is an Indian transgender rights activist, social worker, managing director, and founder of the Sakhi Char Chowghi Trust.

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She was born on 22-07-1980 in Bhavani Peth, Pune in the state of Maharashtra, India as Ganesh.

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She was born as the 2nd child with a gap of 10 years to a police officer father Suresh Sawant & a homemaker mother, and she has an elder sister.

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In 1987 when she was just 7 years old, her mother passed away and she grew up with her grandmother.

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In 1994 when she was 14 years old, she left at her parent's home.

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In 2000 at the age of 20, she founded an NGO called "The Sakhi Char Chowghi Trust" to provide counseling to transgender people.

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Her NGO, The Sakhi Char Chowghi Trust promotes safe sex and provides help to Transgender/LGBT & HIV people.

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In 2008, she adopted a 4 years old girl named Gayatri whose mother was a sex worker and died from AIDS.

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In 2014, she filed a petition for the adoption rights of transgender people in the Supreme Court of India.

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She became the first transgender to file a petition in the Supreme Court of India for the rights of transgender people.

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After her petition, the Supreme Court has been recognized transgender as the third gender.

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She became the first transgender goodwill ambassador of the Election Commission.

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In 2017, she was featured in a Hindi short film "Generations of Care" by Vicks.

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In 2018, she became the author of 280 pages Marathi book "Manav Sansadhan Vikas".

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On 01-01-2019, a young author Rhythm Wagholikar launched a book "Gauri The Urge To Fly" based on her life's journey.

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A biographical television series "Taali" based on her life directed by Ravi Jadhav has been released on 15-08-2023 at JioCinema with the main star cast Sushmita Sen as Shreegauri Sawant.

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