Ok guys so sep 10th is my date fror charing cross just wnated to ask people if they have been there and what to expect...Thanks guys. (so exsited) also. Iv been thnking about changing my name fully for about 4 mths now. I asked my family to have some inport on the name as my mum was the person who gave me my name in the 1st place well anyways, she seemd cool with it. and aggreed I prited out as meny boys names as i could but shes never looked at them... There was a day i got extremley low and my sister said look i think it best u change ur name before going to charing cross.. I agreed and ones again asked mums inprot... She gave me a couple she liked and that was the last i hard.... When we r out i am referd to as dean... But i wouldnt like it was a full time name.. also its only really my older sister and best friend who does that, anyways do u guys think it would have been best if i changed it before hand.. As that s somtink i want to do before ect ect... anyways wish me luck guys.... BTW im starting a blog and will be posting my evening at charing cross. so heres my youtube...

http://www.youtube.com/user/Hazardmusic88

I think the sooner you change your name the better because thats a sign that you are RLE.

I've had my first appoinment there and my second is on the 2nd of sept. I saw Dr Lorimer, he was really nice. Pretty much the first things he asked was what I wanted from them  top surgery, T etc and how long i'd been presenting as male he asked to see my statutory declaration.

He asked me about the usual childhood stuff, my mum came with me so that was very helpful because I don't remember alot of stuff from my childhood. He asked about puberty and how that made me feel. He asked if I used to bind or wear baggy shirts to hide the moobs. The questions that I expected. He also asked if I tried to be a butch lesbian.

I wasn't asked as many questions as I expected, I thought it was going to be really complicated but I was relieved at how easy it was.

I might update this a little bit after my second appoinment.

Get your name change ASAP for your RLE. Preferably before you go to Charring Cross.
This website does it for free and since you print it out yourself you can get it quicker than a deed poll service that you pay for. It's completly legitimate and legal, the essential part is the signatures of yourself and your witnesses.

http://freedeedpoll.co.uk/free-deed-poll.cfm

Good luck with your appointment Hazard, and yours Nathan.

Defintiely get your name changed as soon as you can. My appt at Charing Cross is April (I have Dr Lorimer too), by which time I'll be 9 months on my new name.

When I was changing my name I ended up converting my original middle name into a male name (so you can probably guess what that used to be, lol) and for my middle name I took my grandfather's name. Once when I was a kid I asked my mum what she would have named me if I'd been born a boy, but I sort of half-tried that name for a while and in the end I decided I didn't like it.

Quote from: Greg on August 26, 2010, 11:35:23 AM
Get your name change ASAP for your RLE. Preferably before you go to Charring Cross.
This website does it for free and since you print it out yourself you can get it quicker than a deed poll service that you pay for. It's completly legitimate and legal, the essential part is the signatures of yourself and your witnesses.

http://freedeedpoll.co.uk/free-deed-poll.cfm

Good luck with your appointment Hazard, and yours Nathan.

Is that a uk site as well???

Quote from: Hazard on August 26, 2010, 02:53:29 PM

Is that a uk site as well???

It sure is.

Quote from: Greg on August 26, 2010, 03:32:09 PM
It sure is.

Thats great welll me and mother had a talk... did any of u get nerves desusing names. Its gunna be wired but it somethink i wanna do..

It definitely is difficult to choose a name and adapt to one...  I've tried very many but for about four or five years I had been being called Vincent in many circles online.  I didn't really realize until recently that I'd been looking all over the place for a name but had already started to get used to Vincent and all of its shortened versions, which always was a concern for me as people always shorten names.  (i.e. if you're Michael, they will most likely call you Mike).

So, to make a long story short, it sort of snuck up on me.  I don't feel 100% sure and committed but it makes sense, and it feels pretty right.  I guess I've never felt "right" so I wouldn't know.

Subscribed to you on youtube, you are very articulate and intelligent in your video, I wish you the best of luck and will be following you.

Quote from: Hazard on August 26, 2010, 04:34:52 PM

Thats great welll me and mother had a talk... did any of u get nerves desusing names. Its gunna be wired but it somethink i wanna do..

I got all keyed up when I was trying to pick a name. Part of me wanted to keep the same initials. In the end, I went with the same name I had started using in high school, almost twenty years earlier! I didn't pick that name because I liked it; it's more like it picked me when I was close to your age. Sometimes you just know it when you see it. Pick a name you like, but go with your gut.

Oh, and try to anticipate any weird nicknames people might come up with. Even a name you like can be a problem if people start torturing it into something irritating or obscene.

Good luck on your appointment, Hazard. I know you've been waiting a long time for it.

Just chiming in to say good luck as well Hazard. Seems like theres a whole load of us from the UK with their apps in the next couple of weeks so hopefully we'll all get where we need to be

Quote from: Nathan. on August 26, 2010, 11:20:06 AM
I think the sooner you change your name the better because thats a sign that you are RLE.

I've had my first appoinment there and my second is on the 2nd of sept. I saw Dr Lorimer, he was really nice. Pretty much the first things he asked was what I wanted from them  top surgery, T etc and how long i'd been presenting as male he asked to see my statutory declaration.

He asked me about the usual childhood stuff, my mum came with me so that was very helpful because I don't remember alot of stuff from my childhood. He asked about puberty and how that made me feel. He asked if I used to bind or wear baggy shirts to hide the moobs. The questions that I expected. He also asked if I tried to be a butch lesbian.

I wasn't asked as many questions as I expected, I thought it was going to be really complicated but I was relieved at how easy it was.

I might update this a little bit after my second appoinment.

Yeh i have Dr Lorimer also... :d

Quote from: Hazard on August 26, 2010, 07:03:44 PM
Yeh i have Dr Lorimer also... :d

He's great so just relax and tell the truth and you should be fine 

So alot of u were worred when u chagned ur name? Im not worred im just a lil scared and nerves but exsited... I dunoo wired

I wasn't worried but I'd been going by Nathan for a few months already.

I'm a bit confused about how to do the whole name change thing. Can the witnesses  be anyone or do they have to be people in certain professions, and is the deed poll from that website recognised by the passport and driving license people? Do banks accept the deed poll as well?