Hi Im Natalie officially now.
I waited until I passed first and then went to Births, Deaths and Marriages and changed my male name into a female name officially. Im still male on my birth certificate as I havnt had GRS yet.
I feel so much better having all my ID in the name of Natalie. It cost me $150 AU. I just filled out a form and then a week later had my birth certificate changed. It was easy!
I was just wondering how others changed their names and was it easy or difficult??

I changed my name in 2008 , in Oregon.  I when to the court, paid $140 posed a notice on a bulletin  board and a month later I went before the judge.  In 15 minutes I was officially Janet.  And in Oregon you can change your gender with a letter from your therapist.  So I went to the DMV and I was listed as female with my new name.

But after I have my orchidectomy, I was able to be not only listed with my new name, but I am officially female according to the Federal government.

I'm in Australia as well but I just d/led the forms over the net then sent them away with a money order, mine cost $156? *shrugs*. But yeah it was surprisingly quick just 2-3 days later it was official. This was june last year, then I scrapped my old name and the date into my old wood table in the yard and that was that! ^_^

Congrats!!!!! That's a big step! Feels great doesn't it?

I changed mine a few years ago, in Arizona. Cost I think $230 if memory serves me (wow you all got a bargain there!) and I had to go to the Superior Court in the county I live in to file and set a date to come back to see the judge. He said gender change is a perfectly valid reason and I was out of there with my new name in just minutes.

My parents gave me a unique, non-gendered name, so I'm sticking with that and saving myself the time and money I would have to spend changing it (I'm fairly positive it could only become less unique no matter what other name I chose).  I wonder if my parents maybe regret their choice a little now .

I just changed my name on the 8th. I didnt wait until I could pass. I just went with it anyways. Soon I will look more fem than male so my wife figured I have 2 choices...I can either be a girl named Peter or a boy named Cynthia.
You should have seen how excited I was that day!
In Washington state it is rediculously easy to change names.

Philadelphia, PA isn't cheap. It will cost me close to $1000 if I do all the work myself without a lawyer! That is just for a legal name change and not for anything else.

In Rhode Island you have to petition the civil court in your town and you have to post it in a newspaper for 30 days (that was the most expenses part). It cost me around $200 for everything.

I saw the judge in 2008 and was done within 10 mins. If i was born in Rhode Island i would of been able to change my Gender Marker too.

I changed mines last summer. That and my gender marker on my license. I didn't change my birth certificate I'll just wait till this summer when I do srs.

Does anyone know how many times your alloweed to change your name? I wanna change mines to something else.

I haven't changed my name yet, in order to protect myself at school, but I wish to get it legally changed as soon as I graduate from College.

I applied for the change before I went full time.  I didn't pass but didn't care.  I had to advertise it for a month and then, since there were no objections, the court granted the change.  I didn't have to go to court.

I thought it would be just one more step, but when I got the papers that said that the government said I was Katherine, it was a terrific feeling of validation.  After all, who am I to dispute the government?

- Kate

Paid $300.00 for an attorney to get this done with about a 2 month wait until I had the official document in hand.

I didn't have to appear in court, and very likely could have just filled the paperwork out on my own, but figured I'd be safe and have a 'professional' do it.  So in my case it was quite easy.

I have two weeks to change my state ID and social security card before I move out of state, which I have all the docs for so that should go well.

Gender marker is still the same unfortunately, for a few more months.  But after the move, I'll be getting my birth certificate updated and scheduling my Orchi...

Then I get to do it all again for my gender marker!!!

But it's so worth it.  And it is very validating, at least to me.