“ My boss said: ‘There is no place here for you anymore. We don`t need a hermaphrodite or ‘it’ like you here. Go away.’ And after that they didn`t pay me for a whole month of my work. ” The situation regarding hate crimes and hate speech is also a serious concern. Legislation does not provide for hate crimes committed on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity and expression. The police do not record statistics on such crimes, and the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights has raised concerns about the failure to record and investigate hate crime incidents. Police are not trained on trans issues specifically, either, and LGBT hate crime-focused trainings often neglect trans people and their needs. According to civil society reports, there are systematic and widespread abuses committed by law enforcement officials against LGBT people in the Ukraine. This includes arbitrary detention, blackmail, threats, ill-treatment, and poor conditions in detention facilities. According to reports, trans persons are only held in accommodation reflecting their gender identity when they have obtained legal recognition of their gender identity. Trans people whose identity papers only reflect their sex assigned at birth are considered to belong to that gender and are treated accordingly. Non-binary individuals, who do not seek legal recognition as either a man or a woman, are not able to choose what prison they are accommodated in. There is no possibility for trans people to start or continue hormonal treatment while imprisoned.18 18 Treatment of LGBT persons deprived of liberty in Ukraine: risks of ill-treatment. Submission to the Subcommittee for the Prevention of Torture, 8 February 2016. Compiled by ILGA – the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association, in consultation with Insight. Available: http://bit.ly/2hpWzmN.