I haven’t updated any of my documents yet, and I saw that the disgusting bill that’s pending in Indiana would make it impossible for trans people to change their gender marker. Although there has been an executive order stopping the department of health from processing court-ordered name changes there for the past year. I don’t think Indiana is ever going to do something that would help a trans person…

What are my options? Am I stuck with incorrect or mismatched documents forever?

  • compostgoblin@piefed.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
    5·
    1 month ago

    Both, depending on which document. Usually changing your birth certificate is the first step, and those are held by the state health department in the state you were born in, regardless of where you live now. Your driver’s license, though, you change with whatever state you’re currently residing in that issued the license. And then your passport is dealt with by the federal government. It’s a mess lol

    • breadsmasher@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 month ago

      Thanks so much for responding!!

      The birth certificate is the issue then? Is that not a transferable document at all?

      Again, apologies for my vaguely related questions. Im just very interested in how it works for you

      edit - if you moved out of the USA to somewhere else and became a citizen, would your birth certificate transfer? Or still beholden to whatever your state decides?

      • humanamerican@lemmy.zipEnglish
        3·
        1 month ago

        Not sure, but I think your American birth certificate becomes much less important if you emigrate.

      • compostgoblin@piefed.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
        3·
        1 month ago

        Oh, you’re totally fine! AFAIK, your birth certificate stays with the state you were born in, with no way to transfer it elsewhere. I’ve heard of people in a similar boat to me who were further along changing their docs, but their birth state wouldn’t cooperate on the birth certificate

        That’s a good question about moving out of the country though, I’m not sure. Since I’d get my citizenship certificate now, as an adult, I would guess that I’d just need to update the gender marker on my Canadian citizenship certificate, and then who cares what the US thinks.

        I really don’t know though, I think that’s a bridge I’d cross once I manage to get my citizenship in Canada