When filling out paperwork for your job and other such official things, do you have to sign them as one sex or the other? and can you have you birth certificate changed before SRS?(in terms of what sex you are)
That depends on where you live for the BC. However, regardless of where you are, you have to sign legal documents and such as your legal sex. If you have not legally changed sex yet, you will have to sign as your birth sex. I assume that is universal.
b/c depends on your state/country. Oregon requires a letter to change the b/c, but the SSA used my Orchie letter. So I am going to try it with the state. If your name is legally changed, even without the correct gender marker that is your name, Period.
Otherwise talk to the person hiring. Explaining your situation to them might help.
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Janet
I am legally Katherine and legally male. My state requires a surgeon's letter to change the gender marker, but a neighboring state only requires a therapist's letter.
I've had to come out as legally male a few times, usually with rather funny results, but YMMV.
Call your DMV and call the county courthouse that holds your birth certificate. When I called mine, they knew the answer right off the top of their head (i.e., I wasn't the first person to ask that question :)).
- Kate
In Commonwealth countries, under British Common Law, a person may adopt any name they wish (as long as it is not for illegal purposes) which was convenient since I 'transitiioned' long before there was any legal avenue to change anything, so I simply sent an advisory letter to where ever there was record of my name with the instruction to change it. For government records, where sex was also recorded, I sent a copy of the surgeon's letter with the instruction to also change the gender. Birth certificates (here) were among the last documents that could legally be changed.
So yes, from even before the first day of transition, everything was signed by my proper name. (From my teens onward, I had used only my initials and family name so it was actually a small change.)
You need to check the rules of where you live. For example, in my state it is against the law for a prospective employer to even ask your gender and if there is a spot on the employment application you simply do not need to answer it.