Trinetra Haldar Gummaraju

Trinetra Haldar Gummaraju (born 17 June 1997) also known mononymously as Trinetra, is an Indian actress and medical doctor known for her pioneering work

Early life/Transition Trinetra Haldar Gummaraju was born on 17 June 1997 in Bangalore, Karnataka to a Telugu father and a Bengali mother. She was assigned male at birth. Her schooling took place in Hyderabad and then in Bangalore. Her father Suresh Gummaraju is an engineer, mother Haima Haldar is an architect, and younger brother Agastya Gummaraju is a Computer Science engineer. She experienced gender dysphoria through her childhood and adolescence, and began presenting as female during college, leading to significant challenges in the medical education ecosystem. She came out in 2018 as a transgender woman and changed her first name to Trinetra. She went through sex reassignment surgery in 2019 in Bangkok, Thailand. She reportedly underwent facial feminisation surgery in Spain in April, 2024.

Career Trinetra Haldar Gummaraju is a primary care physician and received her M.B.B.S. degree from Kasturba Medical College, Manipal. She received a government seat in 2015 via the Karnataka Common Entrance Test (CET), wherein her rank was 163. She is reportedly Karnataka's first transgender doctor. After coming out, her content focused on mainstream representation of LGBTQIA+ people and raised awareness around transgender rights.

She began her acting career with the Amazon Prime Original - Made in Heaven Season 2, where she played the role of Meher Chaudhry, a wedding planner, becoming the first trans woman to play a main character in an Indian web series.

Gummaraju went on to star in GLAAD Media Awards nominated Docu-Series Rainbow Rishta on Amazon Prime Video. She then appeared in SonyLiv Original Kankhajura as Aimee, starring opposite Roshan Mathew.

In 2022, she was listed in Forbes 30 Under 30 - India as well as Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia - Media, Marketing & Advertising. She was on the Forbes Top 100 Digital Stars Lists in 2022 and 2023. She was enlisted under the GQ 25 Most Influential Young Indians List in 2021 and GQ 30 Most Influential Young Indians List in 2022. She has featured on the covers of magazines like Harper's Bazaar, Forbes India, Femina and Elle India.

Activism Trinetra Haldar Gummaraju is one of India's first transgender people to digitally document her medico-socio-legal transition from male to female. She documented Trinetra Gummaraju was among those from the community he consulted to seek information. He stated that Vidya Dinakaran, a psychotherapist, and Trinetra Gummaraju became his “gurus” and “pulled (him) out of darkness.” “Medical practitioners who claim to be able to “cure” homosexuality should have their licenses revoked,” he said. and constituted a working committee to look into queer inclusive medical education.

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 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.

Filmography Year Title Role(s) Language(s) Notes 2023 Made in Heaven Meher Chaudhry HindiAmazon Prime Video 2025Kankhajura AimeeHindiSonyLIV