The first publication of the project entitled ‘Monitoring Transphobic Incidents’ aims to provide an introduction to the topic of monitoring discrimination, hate speech and hate crimes by defining the most common terms and present guidelines on how to use the online monitoring tool developed by TGEU and its partner organisations. Setting up a monitoring scheme and accompanying victim support services is an enormous task that requires careful resource planning and expertise. However, in this booklet we still attempt to highlight some key issues and showcase one hopefully useful tool for those groups and civil society organisations that want to improve their monitoring and reporting activities and engage in comparative data collection at the European level.