What if...you want to change your birth certificate to reflect gender and name change, but want your ID to reflect a married name that may be different that what you use now? So someone was born John smith and now wants their birth certificate to be Jacqueline smith, but wants their married name now to be Jacqueline Finney Smith? This would involve the birth certificate being in a different state than currently living in.


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Court order to change the name on the BC, and depending on the birth state law a court order or surgery letter to change the gender on the BC.  At least, that is what I went thru living in a state other than my birth state.  In my case, I got a court order for name and gender change, but my birth state required surgeon letter to change gender on BC, so I sent court order and surgeon letter to change name and gender on my BC.

I will add that my State Driver's License was able to be changed for name and gender with just the court order.   (...same with passport, SSN, and EVERYTHING else.  Stupid BC HAD to have the surgeon letter...)

Quote from: ainsley on August 07, 2017, 01:59:53 PM
Court order to change the name on the BC, and depending on the birth state law a court order or surgery letter to change the gender on the BC.  At least, that is what I went thru living in a state other than my birth state.  In my case, I got a court order for name and gender change, but my birth state required surgeon letter to change gender on BC, so I sent court order and surgeon letter to change name and gender on my BC.

I will add that my State Driver's License was able to be changed for name and gender with just the court order.   (...same with passport, SSN, and EVERYTHING else.  Stupid BC HAD to have the surgeon letter...)

I have a decent idea of the general procedure, but I was wondering what if the name change for the BC and everything else is somewhat different?


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I thought you had to have a court order to change any of it, so I don't know how you get two differing orders like that. 

It depends on where you live and where you were born.  One way I can imagine to do it is get your initial name change done, change the BC, then say "oops, your honor, I really meant to go hyphenated" or something of the like and file another name change the way you really want it.

I am thinking - get the gender change but not a name change for the birth certificate (maybe it won't need a court order, only a surgeon letter) and who cares if your old name was for a boy (some parents are strange...) and then name change through the court order to your married name)...

Or ask in name change request - that you want name to be such and such on birth certificate and different on other documents going further. Some judges might honor such an unusual request...


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