Bhumika Shrestha has made history as Nepal’s first transgender woman MP, representing the Rastriya Swatantra Party. A 37-year-old activist and former IWOC award winner, she joins a parliament where her party holds 182 seats. Shrestha plans to use her position to turn Nepal’s progressive constitutional ideals into concrete laws for the country's 900,000-strong LGBTQ+ community.
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