Santhi Soundarajan

In 2006, Santhi Soundarajan was stripped of her silver medal for failing a gender test at the Asian Games. Ten years later she has been appointed as a coach.

Gopi Shankar does not fit in any prescribed male or female gender. Refusing to be categorized as “he” or “she,” Gopi asked us to use the gender neutral pronoun “ze.” And ze is indeed a free soul who is helping hundreds of people from the LGBTQIA community through an organization ze set up called Srishti Madurai.