How to change your name and gender now that both portions of the AB 1121 Law are into effect:
A court hearing IS required in order to get your name AND gender marker changed at the same time.
You do not need a court hearing to change just your name as long as there are no objections. Although a $435 court fee is still required. Unless you fill out a fee waiver which I did. The clerk at the court house told me I will get a letter in the mail stating whether or not I was approved for financial assistance.
To avoid having to go to a court hearing I am changing them separately.
Part one: Name Change
1.) File a name change WITHOUT gender change.
Use form NC-100
http://www.courts.ca.gov/documents/nc100.pdfMake sure to check box 6 that you're changing your name to conform with gender identity.
Make sure to fill out all the attached forms (cover letter, fee waiver, etc.) You can get those here and fill them out and print them on the computer:
http://www.courts.ca.gov/formnumber.htm http://www.courts.ca.gov/documents/nc100.pdf http://www.courts.ca.gov/documents/nc110.pdf http://www.courts.ca.gov/documents/nc110g.pdf (ONLY FILL 110 G IF UNDER 18)
http://www.courts.ca.gov/documents/nc120.pdf http://www.courts.ca.gov/documents/nc121.pdf http://www.courts.ca.gov/documents/nc130.pdf http://www.courts.ca.gov/documents/nc130g.pdf (ONLY FILL 130 G IF UNDER 18)
Make sure to check box 6 as this makes you exempt from the Court hearing appearance ( Although you still get a court hearing date) and publication in a newspaper.
Look online to see what courthouse in your county you go to in order to file Civil Cases, that is what a name and gender change falls under. Make sure to bring a copy of the AB 1121 law:
http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1121 In-case you run into any issues like I did, and have to educate staff, If all fails request a supervisor which is what I had to do.
Here are the fee waiver forms:
http://www.courts.ca.gov/documents/fw003.pdf http://www.courts.ca.gov/documents/fw005.pdf IMPORTANT NOTE FOR RIVERSIDE COUNTY RESIDENTS:
You have to go down to the Riverside County courthouse because they are the ones who do name changes. Make sure to bring a copy of the law because no one knew what they were doing. I had to request the supervisor be notified but you shouldn't have a problem since they should know what to do after I made it an issue and the supervisor helped me by telling them the law. Here's the law text:
http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1121 Part two: Gender Change
2.) Once awarded the court order for name change, then file the form to change birth certificate and gender to the department of vital statistics. You have to request the form on their website, then mail in that form with your court issued copies of the decree to change your name and
you need a doctors affidavit from a physician as-well on the NC 210 NC310 form
http://www.courts.ca.gov/documents/nc210.pdf saying:
"I, (physician's
full name), (physician's medical license or certificate number), am a
licensed physician in (jurisdiction). I attest that (name of
petitioner) has undergone clinically appropriate treatment for the
purpose of gender transition to (male or female). I declare that the
foregoing is true and correct to the best of my knowledge
http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=hsc&group=103001-104000&file=103425-103445 Here is the states kind of confusing and overly complicated pamphlet to changing your name and gender on your birth certificate
http://www.cdph.ca.gov/certlic/birthdeathmar/Documents/GenderReassignmentPAMPHLET-%2801-14%29-MERGED.pdf P.S. I hope everyone is successful best wishes and regards -Brenda
and I would like to thank the members on
Susans.org who created a forum about this which gave me the information I needed to start this whole process when I couldn't find it anywhere! I restated others words and also added me own and changed them. This is by no means a comprehensive guide but it was created to the best of my knowledge. If anyone has anything to add please do so. I take no responsibility for the 100% accuracy of this guide.
