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 Joshi won Miss World Diversity beauty pageant three times in a row. She is also India’s first transgender cover model. She also happens to be world’s first Trans Sexual to win international beauty pageant with cisgenderwomen. Naaz Joshi won the title of Miss Universe Diversity 2020, making her India’s first international trans beauty queen with six international crowns. Early life She was born as Aizya Naaz Joshi to a Muslim mother and Hindu Punjabi father. At an early age of 7, her family sent her to a distant relative in Mumbai to avoid taunts from the society for her feminine behavior. She worked at dance bars and restaurants to earn her living. Later, she enrolled National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT) and completed her formal studies in fashion design. She later completed her MBA in marketing from the Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad.Personal life EditJoshi worked as a sex worker to earn money for her sex reassignment surgery. In 2018, she claimed to be a victim of gender discrimin on after having her booking rejected by a hotel in Gurgaon. Although a junior employee of the hotel initially contacted about the matter by the Hindustan Times stated that the booking was cancelled for “gender-based reasons”, this was later denied by the general manager who stated the “allegations of discrimination of any kind were false” and that the hotel had not yet confirmed Joshi’s booking because it was still waiting for approval from the regional sales office.The status of India’s transgender population improved when the NALSA was able to get transgender recognized as a third gender by the Supreme Court of India on 14 April 2014. She has also won the Miss Republic International Beauty Ambassador 2017 and Miss United Nations Ambassador pageants. On winning this particular title, she told Indulge Express that winning the crown gives her more power and responsibility towards society, with which she aims to work towards bringing the transgender community into the mainstream.IIM students interacted with Miss World Diversity 2019 to promote mutual respect and inclusion of the third gender. During an interview on 72nd independence day celebration of India, she stated that love is not free in the country, she was living in with a boy and her marriage called off because she is a transwoman. Trans women in India are often subjected to hatred and trans phobia.

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