Solongo Batsukh

Biography

Solongo Batsukh (Mongolian: Солонго Батсүx) is a Mongolian beauty queen, model and make-up artist. As of 2018, she was one of the few openly transgender people in Mongolia. Solongo Batsukh was born Bilguun Batsukh and grew up as a boy in Dundgovi province. She learnt about different gender identities as a student, and realised whilst working at an LGBT organisation that she was a woman and began hormone therapy. Batsukh works as a model and make-up artist. She became a celebrity in Mongolia in 2014, after participating in Miss International Queen, a transgender beauty pageant held in Thailand. She later participated in Miss Universe Mongolia 2018. She advocates for transgender rights in television appearances and on social media.

== See also == LGBT Centre Mongolia LGBT rights in Mongolia

== References ==

== External links == "Meet Solongo Batsukh, Mongolia's transgender beauty queen". Times of India. 3 January 2019. Retrieved 18 July 2020.