My girlfriend Elaine (MTF) and I don't intend to get genital reassignment surgery as it stands right now, but we both want to get our legal documents changed.
It's easy for me because my top surgery can be considered my SRS, but I don't know about Elaine. She is considering an Orchiectomy, and I've read this and that and in between saying that yes it can be SRS, no it can't, blah blah blah.
She has a South Carolina certificate, we live in Virginia. South Carolina requires SRS and a name change, and they'll attach a little card saying 'hey you're a girl now enjoy' on the certificate instead of issuing a new one.
I read that sometimes all you need to do is have your surgeon word it in a way that says an irreversible genital surgery has been preformed to change so and so's gender to female, with an orchi. Has anyone done it? Because at the trans support group (Which all of them were FTMs and one androgyn, plus they're VA residents and not SC) most of them said that MTFs have to get full SRS to change the certificate, which I was doubtful of (or, crossing my fingers it wasn't so)
In short, can an orchiectomy be considered SRS, at least in SC? Or is she going to have to get the whole shabang anyways
