College Application?

[LorettaDiva]

Hi, I'm an MTF transsexual, and next year I'm going to be doing my college application.  I am currently known by my male name still but most people know I'm trans.  I want college to be a new start for me, and consequently I want to put my female name on my college application.  Can i do this?  If so, are there steps I need to take to make it legal? (FYI: im pre-op, my mum wont let me start hormone treatment until just after the time I am doing the application, but i will have been taking oestrogen for 9 months when I start at college.  I'm planning to legally change my name and gender in the summer between school and college).  Please help!xx

[Isabelle]

Dunno where you live but can you do a name change by deed poll? Basically you change your name only, your legal gender marker would still be M but your name will legally be whatever you chose. It's important to make a name change legal if you're at college under that name or else all your exams results would be void.

[Isabelle]

Also, just wanted to add... Without knowing what country you're in, you may need parental sign off for a legal name change. In my country 16 you can do what you like, I think in the states it varies between states 18/21. Europe is different again, some places it's 13, others its 16/18

[LilDevilOfPrada]

Well yea what Isabelle has been saying the application is a legal document so you must put the name your legally registered on it. I am starting collage in a bit and had to apply and such with my male name I however plan to get it changed over the year.

A name doesnt equal a new start.

In terms of changing your gender as far as I know not one country in this world allows you to change that legally unless you have had the SRS and a doctor gives legal confirmation of that.

[Cindy]

In terms of changing your gender as far as I know not one country in this world allows you to change that legally unless you have had the SRS and a doctor gives legal confirmation of that.

I think it is more confusing than that - just for a change. In Australia you can change your gender marker while on HRT and with supporting letter from your psychiatrist. I have changed mine and it is changed on my driving licence, medicare cards and soon on my passport. I have also changed my gender on my official documents and in my official professional registrations.

But I can't change my sex marker until I have had SRS.

I can legally marry as female gender I cannot as female sex.

If you can find the logical background for any of this I will be very surprised as I think it is total BS created by bureaucrats who have no active intelligence.

[Saffron]

I didn't know that in Australia there is a gender marker AND a sex marker. here it's only sex marker.

[Annah]

When you do your application you must use your legal name. Once you get your name changed then you can contact the school

Def do your legal name then when you get there tell them your preferred name

[Isabelle]

Cindy, That's weird in Aus.. Here in NZ we can change sex and have your original birth cert sealed and replaced, you used to have to have bottom surgery for that but it's been change recently. We just need to be living as our "chosen" sex and make a statutory declaration in family court.

[Cindy]

Yes I can get my birth certificate changed to sex = female but in South Australia I have to have had surgery to do that. But I can get my gender changed without surgery just a supporting letter from my psych is enough.

My name change says sex = male. My driving licence etc says gender = female. The passport will also say gender = female.

If I was cynical I would think there were a bunch of half witted politicians who don't have a clue what they are doing and don't care about the ramifications.

While my gender is female and my sex is male I can remain married. Once I change my sex I cannot - because same sex marriage is illegal.

I'm looking forward to being a test case when that happens and asking the government why they insist I get divorced after 30 yrs of marriage and what has changed in my life for it to be illegal.

I'll sell my story to the Women's gossip press at the same time!

[LilDevilOfPrada]

Yes I can get my birth certificate changed to sex = female but in South Australia I have to have had surgery to do that. But I can get my gender changed without surgery just a supporting letter from my psych is enough.

My name change says sex = male. My driving licence etc says gender = female. The passport will also say gender = female.

If I was cynical I would think there were a bunch of half witted politicians who don't have a clue what they are doing and don't care about the ramifications.

While my gender is female and my sex is male I can remain married. Once I change my sex I cannot - because same sex marriage is illegal.

I'm looking forward to being a test case when that happens and asking the government why they insist I get divorced after 30 yrs of marriage and what has changed in my life for it to be illegal.

I'll sell my story to the Women's gossip press at the same time!

I am jealous because this is what my country law is:

Changing gender

In terms of section 27(A) read with the provisions of the Alteration of Sex Description and Sex Status Act, 2003 (Act No.49 of 2003).

Applications can be made by:

Persons who have undergone a sex change operation or medical treatment resulting in their gender reassignment.  In such cases two medical reports are required:

1) one by the medical practitioner who applied the procedure or medical treatment or by a medical practitioner who has experience in such procedures or treatments.

2)a report by a second medical practitioner who has independently examined the applicant to established his/her gender.


However i never dwelled into what extent of just treatment they need but hey. I guess South Africa still has the good old SRS needed policy.



So as you can see Diva you will have to research your countries own laws on this.