Rupert Raj is a trailblazing, Eurasian-Canadian, trans activist and ex-psychotherapist, who transitioned from female to male in 1971 as a gender-distressed, transsexual teenager.

As a trans activist, he co-founded five transsexual peer-support groups across Canada from 1978 to 2000. As a therapeutic gender consultant from 2000 to 2015, he counselled transgender, intersex, and two-spirit adults and gender non-conforming youth. Grounded in his TransPositive Therapeutic Model^TM, Raj has trained health care and social service providers, taught educators and students, consulted with employers, lawyers and politicians, and testified at human rights hearings.

He has published trans-focused, clinical research papers in scholarly journals and (co-)edited Trans Activism in Canada: A Reader (2014) and Of Souls & Roles, Of Sex & Gender: A Treasury of Transsexual, Transgenderist & Transvestic Verse from 1967 to 1991 (2017).

In recognition of his nearly fifty years of service to the trans/queer community, Rupert was inducted into the Canadian Lesbian & Gay Archives in 2013, and was presented with the Canadian Centre for Gender & Sexual Diversity's "Youth Role-Model-of-the-Year Award" at his 65th birthday/retirement party in 2017.

Raj is now morphing from Gender Worker to Rainbow Warrior, working as an eco-activist/animal liberationist to free Mother Earth's enslaved farmed animals and expand the circle of compassion.