"No president has taken it upon himself to think about LGBT minorities, we try to see who cares about us the most," says Axell Antonio Fernandez before casting his vote in the Dominican Republic's presidential election under the gender he was assigned at birth. As the LGBTQ+ community struggles to find representation within the Dominican Penal Code, election observer Juan Jose Cid says that the inability to change their gender on their ID card discourages members of the community from voting: "They don't want to come to vote because they would have to come out," he says. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES