TGEU Countries: Moldova ProTrans in Moldova A rtiom Zavadovsky is the LGBT Community Development Programme Coordinator at the GENDERDOC-M Information Centre and one of the first open- ly cisgender gay persons in Moldova. Working locally and regionally, he reaches out to both the LGBT communities and the general public to empower and engage the former in the common fight for equality and to raise awareness of LGBT issues, and decrease the high level homophobia and transphobia, among the latter. His portfolio in GENDERDOC-M encompasses community organising and development as well as reaching out to the transgender communities. The main impact on GENDERDOC-M of the ProTrans project is that it has finally expanded its activities with and for the trans community, thereby making itself a more trans-inclusive and sensitive organisation, thanks to the increased outreach to trans and gender-nonconforming people. T he ProTrans project in Moldova was implemented is a result of the small number of trans people who reach by the GENDERDOC-M Information Centre. As out to GENDERDOC-M for assistance, including safe the organisation already monitored and documented spaces and psycho-social services, which consequently discriminatory incidents and violations of LGBT peo- leads to their invisibility within the greater LGBT com- ple’s human rights, the project’s particular focus was munity, as well as the complete absence of trans-rights outreach to the trans community and awareness raising activists from the trans community. On the other hand, about trans-specific issues among the general public, many transsexual people, who comprise the majority as well as among the lesbian, gay and bisexual com- of the trans community in Moldova, have internalised munities. Trans people are the most underserved and their stigmatisation and often do not want to be associ- underrepresented group within the Moldovan LGBT ated with an LGBT organisation. community. On the one hand, this underrepresentation + 58 + + 59 +