Srishti Madurai was established on 2 September 2011 by

Gopi Shankar Madurai Gopi Shankar Madurai, born 13 April 1991, is an Indian equal rights and Indigenous rights activist. Shankar was one of the youngest, and the first openly intersex and genderqueer statutory authority and one of the candidates to contest in 2016 ...

as the first genderqueer and LGBT student volunteer group designed to target the problems of LGBT people in non-metro cities of Tamil Nadu. In October 2011 Srishti Madurai launched India's first helpline for intersex, genderqueer, and LGBT people at Madurai. In June 2013 the helpline turned to offer service for 24 hours with a tagline "Just having someone understanding to talk to can save a life". Srishti Madurai also organized Asia's first Genderqueer Pride Parade at Madurai. Srishti Madurai coined the regional Tamil terms for genderqueer people and published ''Maraikkappatta Pakkangal'', the first book on gender-variants in Tamil. On 22 April 2019 the Madras High Court (Madurai Bench) passed a landmark judgment and issued direction to ban sex-selective surgeries on intersex infants based on the works of Srishti Madurai. The Court took note of the rampant practice of compulsory sex reassignment surgeries performed on intersex infants and children. The first ever state policy briefing on

intersex human rights Intersex people are born with sex characteristics, such as chromosomes, gonads, or genitals, that, according to the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, "do not fit typical binary notions of male or female bodies." Intersex peo ...

was organised in association with Intersex Asia Network, COC Netherlands and Ministry of Foreign Affairs in July 2019.

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