Trinetra Haldar Gummaraju

Trinetra Haldar Gummaraju (born 17 June 1997) is an Indian actress, medical doctor, content creator and transgender activist known for her works in television and Hindi cinema.

She shot for her acting debut in Amazon Prime Original - Made in Heaven 2 entirely during her medical internship.

[3][4] Upon completing her internship at Kasturba Medical College, Manipal, Haldar Gummaraju moved to Mumbai to pursue content creation and acting full-time in April 2023.

Trinetra Haldar Gummaraju is one of India’s first transgender people to digitally document her medico-socio-legal transition from male to female.

Her work has documented the lack of queer-inclusive medical education in India and the state of trans rights in the country.

In Madras High Court case of S Sushma v. Commissioner of Police, Justice N Anand Venkatesh sought to educate himself on LGBTQIA+ issues.

[21] He stated that Vidya Dinakaran, a psychotherapist, and Trinetra Gummaraju became his “gurus” and “pulled (him) out of darkness.”[20][22] In a report filed to the court by Trinetra Gummaraju, she elaborated on the need for queer inclusive medical education and for archaic and outdated queerphobic texts to be removed[21][12] and spoke of the rampant practice of conversion therapy, whereby medical practitioners claim and attempt to “cure” LGBTQIA+ identities via unscientific and unethical means.

Upon being denied a girls’ hostel in college despite having changed her legal documents, Trinetra Gummaraju via the Centre for Law and Policy Research, Bengaluru filed a Public Interest Litigation[28] asking the Karnataka High Court to direct public and private institutions to create gender neutral accommodation for trans people, and house according to changed legal documents.