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Title: I have a question for Post-Ops
Post by: MsFierce on March 15, 2010, 05:24:19 PM
Post by: MsFierce on March 15, 2010, 05:24:19 PM
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.
Title: Re: I have a question for Post-Ops
Post by: mmelny on March 15, 2010, 07:05:18 PM
Post by: mmelny on March 15, 2010, 07:05:18 PM
Hi Giselle,
It depends on what State you live in, if you are in the US.
http://www.drbecky.com/birthcert.html (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!!! :icon_writers_block:
Melan
It depends on what State you live in, if you are in the US.
http://www.drbecky.com/birthcert.html (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!!! :icon_writers_block:
Melan
Title: Re: I have a question for Post-Ops
Post by: MsFierce on March 15, 2010, 07:13:52 PM
Post by: MsFierce on March 15, 2010, 07:13:52 PM
Thanks Melan ;D.
I hope you get that worked out.
I hope you get that worked out.
Title: Re: I have a question for Post-Ops
Post by: Flan on March 15, 2010, 11:19:57 PM
Post by: Flan on March 15, 2010, 11:19:57 PM
there's also them there wiki...
https://www.susans.org/wiki/Category:Documentation_changes (https://www.susans.org/wiki/Category:Documentation_changes)
https://www.susans.org/wiki/Category:Documentation_changes (https://www.susans.org/wiki/Category:Documentation_changes)
Title: Re: I have a question for Post-Ops
Post by: MsFierce on March 16, 2010, 11:57:58 AM
Post by: MsFierce on March 16, 2010, 11:57:58 AM
Quote from: FlanHusky on March 15, 2010, 11:19:57 PM
there's also them there wiki...
https://www.susans.org/wiki/Category:Documentation_changes (https://www.susans.org/wiki/Category:Documentation_changes)
Oh cool thanks hun.
Title: Re: I have a question for Post-Ops
Post by: Sheila on March 27, 2010, 09:43:46 PM
Post by: Sheila on March 27, 2010, 09:43:46 PM
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.
Title: Re: I have a question for Post-Ops
Post by: Dianna on March 27, 2010, 09:58:36 PM
Post by: Dianna on March 27, 2010, 09:58:36 PM
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.
Title: Re: I have a question for Post-Ops
Post by: MMarieN on March 28, 2010, 12:25:56 PM
Post by: MMarieN on March 28, 2010, 12:25:56 PM
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.
Title: Re: I have a question for Post-Ops
Post by: Amazon D on March 29, 2010, 12:11:47 PM
Post by: Amazon D on March 29, 2010, 12:11:47 PM
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 (https://www.susans.org/forums/index.php/topic,75044.0.html)
My intro here https://www.susans.org/forums/index.php/topic,75044.0.html (https://www.susans.org/forums/index.php/topic,75044.0.html)
Title: Re: I have a question for Post-Ops
Post by: Valentina on April 02, 2010, 06:23:08 AM
Post by: Valentina on April 02, 2010, 06:23:08 AM
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.
Title: Re: I have a question for Post-Ops
Post by: Kristyn on April 02, 2010, 04:43:18 PM
Post by: Kristyn on April 02, 2010, 04:43:18 PM
Quote from: Dianna on March 27, 2010, 09:58:36 PM
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