I have a question for Post-Ops

[MsFierce]

Okay so I was just wondering, after you have SRS and you get a letter from your surgeon. Do you have to bring that with you and change your gender thru court? or do you change with S.S and vital records to change your birth records? Or is all three.

[mmelny]

Hi Giselle,

It depends on what State you live in, if you are in the US.

http://www.drbecky.com/birthcert.html


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Or you could be caught in the hopeless loop that I'm in.   My birth cert is in Indiana, I reside in Toronto.  Indiana Vital Records office (for change of birth cert) requires a court order stating that the person's gender has been changed (with proof of genital surgery).   But, I live in Ontario, which doesn't offer court orders for gender change.   And Indiana won't grant me a court order for gender change as I'm no longer a resident there.  Fun, eh?

Take Care, have fun with name/gender marker legal document change, it can be a doozy!!!     


Melan

[MsFierce]

Thanks Melan .

I hope you get that worked out.

[Flan]

there's also them there wiki...
https://www.susans.org/wiki/Category:Documentation_changes

[MsFierce]

there's also them there wiki...
https://www.susans.org/wiki/Category:Documentation_changes

Oh cool thanks hun.

[Sheila]

I never changed my birth certificate but I got a passport with the right gender and had my drivers license changed also went to SS and got all that changed too. I got to thinking that I have never used my BC for anything except to get my passport and they changed my passport. Everything else has been changed.

[Dianna]

In Australia my name was changed on my birth certificate long before my gender. For the gender to be changed I  had to show proof of surgery (from medics) to Births, Deaths & Marriages and fill out forms etc.

[MMarieN]

I'm in Chicago. The only time I went to court was to change my name. Post op, I changed my gender with Social Security, the Illinois Department of Vital Records, and had my passport changed. It was much easier and faster to get my passport changed than it was to get my birth certificate changed. The federal government moves quickly.

[Amazon D]

In Pennsylvania i got my name changed through the courts and the gender changed on BC with a lawyer after he knew i had surgery and the SS with the letter from the DR who performed my surgery many years ago

My intro here https://www.susans.org/forums/index.php/topic,75044.0.html

[Valentina]

There are many of us in this forum who come from foreign countries where you can't change your gender marker in your birth certificate & identity documents until you've had GRS & by GRS I mean a vaginoplasty (for women) and a metoidioplasty/phalloplasty (for blokes), not an orchi, a penectomy or top surgery.

[Kristyn]

In Australia my name was changed on my birth certificate long before my gender. For the gender to be changed I  had to show proof of surgery (from medics) to Births, Deaths & Marriages and fill out forms etc.

That's the same as in Canada