At what point did you legally change your name?

[Tysilio]

You must be rather . . . shaken.

And not stirred...

But I am always very dry.

[Katiepie]

I have a minimum of 4 years before I'd be able to change my name. On the sheer fact of the military. I conclude 4 years due to keeping my benefits, and not having to pay a dime back of the bonus I got from resigning a contract. It's that or the protections happen, and dependant of so is when I would get the name change done.

Of course unofficially I can always be Kate, but by documentation, I will remain male named.

Kate

[kelly_aus]

I did mine as soon as I was able to afford it, which was about 2 years after I came out..

[Tessa James]

But I am always very dry.

Still lmao.  its a generational thing, boomers!!  One of the most important characteristics of this site is the diversity of generations, culture and more. Thank you!

[genderirrelevant]

It was the very first thing I did (years before identifying as trans). I socially changed right after high school and legally changed it 6 years later. The name is gender-neutral (I'm agender) but it started from a male name and the female version felt quite wrong.

[Tysilio]

Still lmao.  its a generational thing, boomers!!  One of the most important characteristics of this site is the diversity of generations, culture and more. Thank you!

You betcha. Power to the grownups! 

[Mai]

i put in the paperwork the first opportunity i could after starting hormones.  theres a bit of a wait in most areas for the court date. ~10 weeks here right now.  and once you get the court orders you dont have to go immediately to change it.   so ill get the court papers.  then when i move in a few months ill deal with the id and gender.

[teddybear_zach]

I went full time in September 2014, starteed hormones October 2014, submitted name change January 2015 and it was granted February 2015

[Arch]

I changed my name early on for two reasons. I was obsessed with transitioning, but I was terrified to even try because of all the roadblocks. This was the mid-nineties; things were actually quite different. I also was afraid to lose my partner. So the name change was my way of asserting my true self.

The second reason was that I was due to graduate from college about a year later, and I wanted to make absolutely sure that my diploma didn't have my old name on it. I didn't want any paperwork snarls down the road.

[Christine Eryn]

I'm not going to do any legal chages till I have FFS. To have my old face on my license that says the F gender marker would be pointless and meaningless.