NJ - Firearms ID card

[ImagineKate]

Anyone change gender and name on theirs? Also, while you are being treated for gender dysphoria, how did you answer question #26 on the FID form about treatment for psychiatric or mental conditions?

Specifically this question:

(26) Have you ever been attended, treated or observed by any doctor or psychiatrist or at any hospital or mental institution on an inpatient or outpatient basis for any mental or psychiatric condition? If yes, give the name and location of the doctor, psychiatrist, hospital or institution and the date(s) of such occurrence.

Did you have to answer yes because Gender Dysphoria is listed in the DSM? I am wondering if I will have to answer yes because I was prescribed hormones from a doctor for treatment of Gender Dysphoria.

[Pixie]

Might be different where I live, but when I got my firearms license I answered no to a similar question because GID isn't a psychiatric condition that would impair my ability to be responsible. When I was in California working in the same type of license (much stricter there) I talked to the sheriffs office about that type of question and they said that it was meant to be asking about serious disorders and that just seeing a therapist wasn't really enough to answer yes to it. They suggested asking my therapist and going with what they said, actually.

I still have to get my card updated with my new name and corrected gender though, not looking forward to that at all.

[ImagineKate]

Might be different where I live, but when I got my firearms license I answered no to a similar question because GID isn't a psychiatric condition that would impair my ability to be responsible. When I was in California working in the same type of license (much stricter there) I talked to the sheriffs office about that type of question and they said that it was meant to be asking about serious disorders and that just seeing a therapist wasn't really enough to answer yes to it. They suggested asking my therapist and going with what they said, actually.

I still have to get my card updated with my new name and corrected gender though, not looking forward to that at all.

Sounds like a plan. I do plan to talk to an attorney who specializes in this sort of law.

However a friend of mine got arrested because he checked "no" on a box on the form when he should have checked "yes." Charges were dropped but he lost his job and got tied up in a legal mess. And he had to spend a couple weeks in jail awaiting extradition. Long long story.

In any case my concern is that since a doctor is prescribing hormones for GD I am under a doctor's care for a mental condition. It is listed in DSM after all. Shouldn't be an issue but you never know. I'll see what the attorney says.

NJ is about as strict as California I think.