My year of bureaucratic changes in gender
Thursday, January 3rd, 2013
Commentary: Trans Progressive
by Autumn Sandeen
Nov. 2 2012 I received a letter from the California Department of Public Health, Vital Records. In that letter came proof that I was "born again." I was born female.
You see, the gender listed on my original birth certificate was male, and my name was my given, male name. The gender listed on the birth certificate I received in November was female, and the name was the female name I'd changed my legal name to in 2003: Autumn Violet Sandeen.
The new birth certificate isn't a revised version of my birth certificate; my new birth certificate in no way indicates it's a revised birth certificate as revised birth certificates in a number of other states do. There is no difference in document style between the birth certificate issued when I was born and the new birth certificate issued by the California Department of Public Health, Vital Records in late October and delivered to me in early November.
You rule Girl, congrats!!!
That sounds wonderful, congratulations.