»» How does your family react to the fact that you are trans? »» It’s a difficult case. My mother found out about it from social media when she read my story. She doesn’t understand it. My father believes that everything will change with age. I haven’t come out to my older brothers yet, but recently I’ve overheard their conversation and learned, with horror, that they treat people, who I identify myself with, with hostility. E., 18-year-old trans man. Quote from the interview taken from the article Not Your Body. What It Takes to Be Transgender in Moldova published on NewsMaker.md, 20 May 2016.12 GENDERDOC-M carries out annual monitoring and documentation of the violation of LGBT people’s rights and publishes annual reports on the overall situation of the observance of LGBT rights. In 2016, the organisation documented 25 cases of discrimination and discriminatory incidents based on sexual orientation and 3 cases of discrimination and discriminatory incidents based on gender identity. 10 http://www.allfun.md/article/9408 11 http://www.jurnal.md/ro/international/2016/7/1/armata-americana-isi-deschide-portile-si-pentru-persoanele-transgen/ 12 http://newsmaker.md/rus/novosti/ne-tvoe-telo-kak-transgenderam-zhivetsya-v-moldove-25207 FOR THE RECORD 2016 | 37 ban on military service for trans individuals in the US army11. Other mass media outlets, which focus on the production of quality journalism and respect journalistic integrity, produce their own content reflecting the issues faced by trans people in Moldova. Despite the positive attitudes towards trans issues and the good journalistic intentions, the last category of mass media still tends to present trans people within the frame of the “born in the wrong body” concept. MOLDOVA exoticism10; some simply reflect international facts related to trans people, such as the lifting of the