The Social Security Administration no longer requires surgery to change the gender marker.

http://www.transequality.org/Resources/SSAResource_June2013.pdf

https://secure.ssa.gov/poms.nsf/lnx/0110212200

http://miamiherald.typepad.com/gaysouthflorida/2013/06/social-security-administration-updates-gender-change-policy-for-trans-people.html

Last year the State Department led the way in this change.

http://travel.state.gov/passport/get/first/first_5100.html

Wohoo! happy face and since I live in CA I get to do it on my Birth Cert next!

They didn't require surgery when I went there in February of this year. I just showed them the court order that explicitly stated my gender had been legally changed and the SSA updated my record accordingly.

Thank you randi! This is awsome, one more brick down...

Quote from: Constance on June 14, 2013, 03:06:40 PM
They didn't require surgery when I went there in February of this year. I just showed them the court order that explicitly stated my gender had been legally changed and the SSA updated my record accordingly.

So, that is one benefit from Obama administration?
Anyway, it is a great leap in the rights of transgender people, not just in the US.

barbie~~

Wait what?! How did i miss this