person from my past life has agreed to accept me for who I am. I accepted myself only 4 years ago when I was 24. I moved to Yerevan from Sisian (city in the south of Armenia) to find some freedom here. But no one had a willingness to employ a ‘man with feminine ARMENIA “ Neither my parents nor my sister, nor my friends - not a single streets then. 2 months later I finally rented an apartment in Yerevan to provide my services there. My first property owner found out that I am a trans person and kicked me out. I started hormone therapy without any doctor, because there is no professional here, I read some forums and based on that I started it. Now I have male marked everywhere in my documents, which means problems everywhere with my feminine appearance. I am collecting money for my gender reassignment surgery, but can’t do that, the easiest way for me is to do that in Moldova. I live here in Yerevan for 4 years now, I was beaten by my clients 4 times, and couldn’t visit a doctor or report to the police because it is stressful. They will laugh at me, call my parents and my father will kill me. This is not a place where a trans person can live. ” FOR THE RECORD 2016 | 15 behaviour’. I started to provide sexual services, I was sleeping on the