Do you plan on legal name change

[stephaniec]

I'm in the process of getting help with my name change , but still not totally sure

[Devlyn]

Mine is already done.

[bubbles21]

Yeah i've had mine done for about 2 years now and recently had GCS so have to go and get the M changed to F 

[Dani]

I am such a bad procrastinator. I am 16 months post op and I still have not changed my name.

But I do have the paperwork filled out and an appointment for review before the court appearance.

[LizK]

Done mine...if you are still thinking about whether you will or won't do it now and maybe leave it awhile. For me it has meant the end of people using my old name at Medical appoints and any other time I now have to officially give my name. It also gives your confidence a boost when you can prove who you are with a female identity.

[rmaddy]

Done.

Changing the name itself is easy.  Filtering this change out to all the parties in your life can be somewhat more challenging.  Make (or download) a checklist and start ticking them off.

[James80]

My hearing is one week from tomorrow. I am super stoked. After I get everything changed over (DL, bank stuff, etc), I won't have to feel humiliated every time I pay for stuff and with any luck, I'll never have to sign my dead name again. Looking forward to that so much.

Gender marks will be a much higher hurdle, though.

[TonyaW]

Not sure when I'm going to do it.
Probably should clue my family in first and maybe work. 

I plan to start getting some of the credit cards issued with my initials instead of first name as they will stay the same.   I've been using just the initials for signature for about 6 months now. 

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[FinallyMichelle]

Already done.

[stephaniec]

I'm procrastinating

[Maybebaby56]

When I just started presenting part-time as female in public, I went out for dinner and drinks with a trans girlfriend of mine.  I ordered a martini, and the waitress carded me, even though I was old enough to be her mother.  She inspected my driver's license, which had my male name and picture on it, snorted in laughter, and handed it back. Slightly embarrassing, but I figured that was that.

Nope.  A couple of minutes later, the manager comes out. "Excuse me, ma'am, but there seems to be a problem with your identification. May I see your ID please?"  I gave him my license. He stared at it, then at me, then at the license, at which point I said, "That is a valid license.  The only problem is I no longer look like that and my gender is listed incorrectly.  Is that going to be a problem?"  He handed back, and said, "No ma'am." I got my martini.  It wasn't even that good.

I may have won that battle, but I vowed I would never let that happen again.

It took a few months, a lot of paperwork, and some patience, but I managed to get my driver's license, credit cards, passport, birth certificate, bank accounts, etc. all changed to my correct name and gender.  Priceless.

~Terri

[FinallyMichelle]

Haha 😄

I am pretty bad about that normally, not for this though.

Anything else and I would join you in procrastination.
Well... Maybe tomorrow.
Or next week, next week would be better. 😉

[Transdude]

I did mine 3 years ago.

[KathyLauren]

I sent in my application two weeks ago.  Still waiting to hear back.  I don't do patience well.   

[Miss Clara]

The day that I got my legal name changed became my re-birthday.

[Wanda Jane]

Unfortunately, I made some poor life choices a while back and am on probation in Texas. I can't change name or gender marker 'til 2 years after getting off probation. The up side is, for now, Texas is actually pretty easy and my doc already said she'll write the letter for DPS. Just gotta wait and hope this back assed state doesn't change that too. P.S. I'm not holding my breath on the last one.

[Barb99]

Set my court date as soon as I went full time. There was a 5 month period where I really dreaded having to use my ID!

[sarah1972]

One day. My biggest challenge is having to change everything in two countries, so even more paperwork ahead of me :-(

Has anyone else gone through changing name / marker in two countries?

[ainsley]

Done.
My lawyer combined the name change with gender change.  So, I have a court order from Missouri for a legal name and gender change. It was nice because whatever record I was changing my name on I told them to change my gender, too.  The only one that balked was my birth certificate.  The state I was born in required a surgery letter.  Got that changed, too, finally.

[KathyLauren]

One day. My biggest challenge is having to change everything in two countries, so even more paperwork ahead of me :-(

Has anyone else gone through changing name / marker in two countries?

Yes.  I live in Canada, but my birth certificate is from the U.K..  The Brits are going to make me wait two years or after surgery, whichever comes first, to update the gender on my BC.  And the locals here won't change any gender markers without an amended BC.  So once my name change comes through, my driver's license will say Kathleen with an M.