Trans people who seek legal gender recognition are forced to undergo psychiatric examination, carried out by a specialised commissioned within the Ministry of Health, which issues a medical certificate allowing them to apply for the name and gender marker change (female or male only) at the State Registry Office. However, due to this legal impasse, they are denied the right to have their birth certificates changed and thus have to go to court. Thanks to an established practice, facilitated by GENDERDOC-M’s free legal aid service, seven individuals have managed to have their gender identity recognised with documentation since 2012. In April 2016, seven members of the Moldovan Parliament of the Socialist Party registered a draft law on amending and completing the Code of Administrative Offences and the Law on the Rights of a Child with articles prohibiting so-called ‘propaganda of homosexual relations among minors’. The anti-gay propaganda bill seeks to complete Article 88 of the Code of Administrative Offences titled “Bringing a minor to a state of intoxication produced by alcohol or other substances” with Article 881 “Propaganda of homosexual relations among minors” as follows: “Propaganda of homosexual relations among minors with means of assemblies, mass media, Internet, booklets, brochures, images, audio-video spots, films and/or audio-video recordings, via audio recordings, amplifiers or other means of sound amplification is sanctioned with a fine from 200 to 300 conventional units (EUR 181- 272) applied to individuals, [and] a fine from 300 to 500 conventional units (EUR 272- MOLDOVA FOR THE RECORD 2016 | 35 Moldova still lacks any legal gender recognition process to regulate or facilitate the changing of identification documents (including birth certificates) for trans individuals issued by the state. The lack of documentation corresponding to one’s de facto physical appearance and identity constitutes a real obstacle for employment, border crossing, voting, opening a bank account, and in other areas where presentation of documents is requirement. The Law on Civil Status Documents contains a single provision (Article 66 “Request of modification, correction or completion of a civil status document”), which implicitly refers to transgender individuals and their right to have their preferred gender (male or female only) legally recognised.