Tanwarin Sukkhapisit

{{short description|Thai politician}}

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| image = ธัญญ์วาริน สุขะพิสิษฐ์ สัมภาษณ์.jpg

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| caption = Tanwarin in 2019

| native_name = {{nobold|ธัญญ์วาริน สุขะพิสิษฐ์}}

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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1973|10|23}}

| birth_place = Nakhon Ratchasima Province, Thailand

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| party = Move Forward Party{{cite news |title=Constitutional Court disqualifies Move Forward Party MP over media shares |url=https://prachatai.com/english/node/8884 |access-date=10 September 2021 |work=Prachatai English |language=en}}

| otherparty = Future Forward Party (2018–2020)

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| occupation = {{hlist|Filmmaker|politician}}

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| office = Member of the House of Representatives
for the Future Forward Party List

| term_start = 24 March 2019

| term_end = 28 October 2020

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Tanwarin Sukkhapisit ({{Langx|th|ธัญญ์วาริน สุขะพิสิษฐ์}}, {{RTGS|Thanwarin Sukkhaphisit}}, {{IPA|th|tʰān.wāː.rīn sùk.kʰà.pʰí.sìt}}) is a Thai filmmaker and politician. In the 2019 Thai general election, they were elected to the Thai parliament representing the Future Forward Party. Tanwarin is a kathoey, and became the first ever openly transgender member of parliament in Thailand's House of Representatives.{{Cite web|last=Yee|first=Tan Hui|date=Mar 30, 2019|title=I am intelligent, capable, and a katoey: Thailand's first transgender MP|url=https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/i-am-intelligent-capable-and-a-katoey-thailands-first-transgender-mp|website=The Straits Times}}{{cite news|last1=Ellis-Petersen|first1=Hannah|date=April 8, 2019|title='I am not here to entertain': meet Thailand's first transgender MP|newspaper=The Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/apr/06/i-am-not-here-to-entertain-meet-thailands-first-transgender-mp|access-date=April 8, 2019}}{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-thailand-lgbt-election/from-movies-to-marriage-first-thai-transgender-mp-wants-change-idUSKCN1RT1DL|title=From movies to marriage, first Thai transgender MP wants change|last1=Chandran|first1=Rina|date=2019-04-17|access-date=2019-08-25|publisher=Thomson Reuters Foundation|work=Reuters}}{{cite web|url=https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/03/25/thailand-first-transgender-mp-tanwarin-sukkhapisit/|title=Thailand elects first transgender MP Tanwarin Sukkhapisit|last=Lotto Perslo|first=Sofia|date=2019-03-25|website=www.pinknews.co.uk}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.bangkokpost.com/news/politics/1654436/the-lgbt-advocate-set-to-be-an-mp|title=The LGBT advocate set to be an MP|last=Boonlert|first=Thana|date=2019-04-01|website=Bangkok Post|access-date=2019-04-02}}