TGEU Countries: Moldova 2. On 3 July 2015, a 35-year-old butch lesbian was ver- 3. On 27 July 2015, a 31-year-old transsexual woman bally and physically assaulted by her cisgender male and her husband were physically assaulted in the wom- neighbour in front of her apartment building’s staircase an’s home village by an aggressive cisgender male in his while she was chatting with another neighbour. The as- 30s. The couple had gone to visit a friend of the woman sailant had tried to interfere in their conversation and for her birthday. At around midnight, the victim’s friend had been politely asked to stop. He was obviously drunk was visited by a male acquaintance, who came in with and told the 35-year-old victim that he had been living seven other men. He insulted the victim, calling her a in that building for years and that people like her should “fag”, questioned whether she was a man or a woman not live there and should not live at all. Then he told her and threatened her with violence. The assailant asked that she was an “it” and that he could beat her and would the victim why she had not informed him of her visit to not be charged for it. He hit her four times in the face and the village and told her that she should not have come twice in the stomach and kicked her in the groin. The vic- there in the first place, because she was an embarrass- tim told him she would call the police, but the assailant ment to the entire village. When she told him to leave said that the police would not charge him for anything her alone, the assailant hit her head and body several and that people like her should be beaten. The victim times, and then he beat her husband, who tried to de- went to the police station to file a formal complaint. fend her from violence, and called him a “fag” also. The When she returned, the assailant physically attacked victim immediately called a GENDERDOC-M repre- her again and took her mobile phone. She called the sentative, who advised her to call the police. The next police, and when they arrived, the assailant continued day, she filed a formal complaint with the local police threatening and ridiculing her in front of them. The as- and underwent a forensic medical examination. The po- sailant was detained, and the victim went to the police lice investigation is currently underway. station to file another complaint. Her mobile phone has never been returned to her. The police investigation is underway. The assailant had also previously harassed the victim on numerous occasions and had once even tried to enter her apartment without permission. + 72 + + 73 +