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'''Aishwarya Rutuparna Pradhan''' (formerly Ratikanta Pradhan) (born 12 November 1983) is [[India|India's]] first openly [[transgender]] [[civil servant]], working in the [[Odisha]] Financial Services (OFS) as a commercial tax officer.<ref name="NDTV">{{cite news | url=http://www.ndtv.com/india-news/odisha-government-officer-makes-public-her-transgender-identity-1257047 | title=Odisha Government Officer Makes Public Her Transgender Identity | agency=NDTV ndtv.com | date=20 December 2015 | accessdate=10 July 2016}}</ref><ref name="GenderMatters">{{cite web | url=http://gendermatters.in/2016/07/transgender-civil-servant/ | title=Paving the Way- India's First Transgender Civil Servant | publisher=Centre for Social Research gendermatters.in | date=9 July 2016 | accessdate=10 July 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160712184651/http://gendermatters.in/2016/07/transgender-civil-servant/ | archive-date=12 July 2016 | url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="OrissaPost">{{cite news | url=http://www.orissapost.com/transgender-rutuparna-ofs-juggles-time-between-work-community/ | title=Transgender Rutuparna, OFS, juggles time between work, community | agency=Orissa Post orissapost.com| date=17 December 2015 | accessdate=10 July 2016}}</ref> Pradhan successfully joined the OFS in 2010 as Ratikanta Pradhan. She legally changed her gender identity in 2015, after the Indian [[Supreme Court of India|Supreme Court's]] 2014 ruling, recognising the transgender community as the [[Third gender#India|third gender]].<ref name="OrissaPost" /><ref name="GenderMatters" />

==Childhood and education==
Pradhan was born in [[Katibageri]] village in [[Kandhmal]] district of Odisha; her father was a retired government officer, Balila Pradhan.<ref name="OrissaPost" /> According to Pradhan, she realised her gender identity was female, not male, when she was in class six.<ref name="Indiatimes">{{cite web | url=http://www.indiatimes.com/news/india/meet-aishwarya-pradhan-india-s-first-transgender-civil-servant-255688.html | title=Meet Aishwarya Pradhan - India's First Transgender Civil Servant | publisher=Indiatimes | date=1 July 2016 | accessdate=10 July 2016 | author=Dabas, Maninder}}</ref> Pradhan has said that she was ridiculed throughout school, sexually abused in college, and her abilities questioned when she joined the civil services. However, since she has proven herself and established her trans identity, she says, "now things have become relatively easier".<ref name="Indiatimes" />

Pradhan is an alumnus of the [[Indian Institute of Mass Communication]].<ref name="ToI">{{cite news | url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bhubaneswar/iimc-alumni-meet-held-in-bhubaneswar/articleshow/51519034.cms | title=IIMC alumni meet held in Bhubaneswar | agency=Times of India timesofindia.indiatimes.com | date=23 March 2016 | accessdate=10 July 2016}}</ref> She also has a [[post graduate]] degree in [[public administration]].<ref name="BetterIndia">{{cite news | url=http://www.thebetterindia.com/40844/transgender-government-officer-odisha/ | title=Bravo, Madam: This Public Officer in Odisha Decided to Go Public with Her Transgender Identity | date=24 December 2015 | agency=Better India | accessdate=10 July 2016 | author=Kapoor, Vandita}}</ref>

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