{"id":273,"date":"2006-11-07T20:09:30","date_gmt":"2006-11-08T00:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/shlep\/2006\/11\/07\/ch-ch-ch-ch-changes-and-forms\/"},"modified":"2006-11-07T20:15:04","modified_gmt":"2006-11-08T00:15:04","slug":"ch-ch-ch-ch-changes-and-forms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/2006\/11\/07\/ch-ch-ch-ch-changes-and-forms\/","title":{"rendered":"Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes (and forms)"},"content":{"rendered":"
New York City is\u00a0“moving forward with a plan to let people alter the sex on their birth certificate even if they have not had sex-change surgery.”\u00a0(New York Times<\/em>, “NY Plans to Make Gender Personal Choice<\/a>,” Nov. 7, 2006; via Howard Bashman<\/a>)\u00a0 shlep <\/em>has no position on the impending policy (and we don’t know what David Bowie<\/font><\/a>\u00a0feels<\/a> about it<\/a>).\u00a0 We can, nonetheless,\u00a0offer a link or two for those planning to take advantage of this new policy — or others merely hoping to handle a name change without a lawyer.\u00a0 <\/font><\/div>\n
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New Yorkers wanting to change the gender designation on their birth certificates will “have to have changed their name and shown that they had lived in their adopted gender for at least two years.”\u00a0\u00a0 They can go to the New York CourtHelp<\/em> website to find forms needed to\u00a0Petition for Individual Adult Change of Name<\/font><\/a>.\u00a0 In addition, the West Village Trans-Legal Clinic<\/a>\u00a0has offered\u00a0a\u00a0Name Change Project<\/em><\/a>\u00a0since 2002, which assists transgendered people in obtaining legal name changes. <\/font><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
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\"erasing\"\u00a0 In addition to the NYS forms<\/a>, prospective name-changers in other states can use the links found on the NCSC State Forms<\/a> page to locate\u00a0websites\u00a0with online forms in their own states.\u00a0 \u00a0For example, Arizona’s Adult Name Change<\/a> forms, and Minnesota Name Change<\/a> forms for both adults and minors.<\/font><\/div>\n
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Finally, in California, it seems you still must have undergone gender reassignment surgery in order to request a change in the gender marker on your legal documents.\u00a0\u00a0 For help in that process, the Access Center<\/a>\u00a0of the Superior Court for San Francisco County “can help you fill out the forms and make sure the affidavit from your doctor is complete.”<\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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New York City is\u00a0“moving forward with a plan to let people alter the sex on their birth certificate even if they have not had sex-change surgery.”\u00a0(New York Times, “NY Plans to Make Gender Personal Choice,” Nov. 7, 2006; via Howard Bashman)\u00a0 shlep has no position on the impending policy (and we don’t know what David […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":437,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[896],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resources-consumer"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/437"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}