The Judge granted my petition, Jenessa is now officially a part of society

[Jenessa]

Welp, done I saw the judge at 11 AM, we were done by 11:15, the judge signed the petition, handed the case file to me and told me to take it across the hall to the clerk. I paid my $45 court fee and got 5 certified copies of the decree ($20) and at 11:28 I was done with the court and legally my new name and gender. Since I was in the court house I took care of the things I had to do there, went to the county DMV and got my title and registration changed ($12) then upstairs to the Sheriffs office and got my CCW changed ($20). Next I drove across town town the State DMV and got my new drivers licence ($10) then the SSA office (free), next the bank (free) followed by my insurance company (also free) and was home by 4:45 with a Hazelnut latte for my wife.
Now, for all the other stuff, Verizon, Netflix, PayPAl/eBay, Red Box, etc, and what ever else pops up that I have not thought of

[Cheyenne Skye]

Interesting. I've never heard that before.

[Jorja]

So, it turns out I can get a new SS number. The decree I got says "Petitioner shall be entitled to apply for a new social security number and new drivers licence under this new name." Also states that a birth cert. shall be generated reflecting the new name and gender. I chose the stay with the same number but the clerk at the SSA office gave me the choice.

That new number is cross referenced to your old number. You might as well keep the old number.

[PretzelGirl]

Yay Jenessa! Congrats! I suspect you will think of at least another few hundred things to change.

[Starling]

Good luck finding all those high school yearbooks!

Lallie

[Amanda1128]

Congratulations. I have flirted with the idea myself. Not there yet. Family etc.. what sort of lifestyle changes do you dislike? Just my curiosity.

[Annaliese]

Good for you, I am glad it went so well

[KristinaP]

Jenessa- have u had surgery or have a letter from therapist/doc? I have read that in MT you can get a name chage and have DL updated with no letter or surgery, but the sex marking and certificate had to have a letter confirming surgery- still right?

[I Am Paula]

Congratulations!! It's great that you live in a place that makes it easy. I was done, all new ID and gender in one afternoon.
I got home and stared at it all.
You'll probably be finding stuff that needs your name change for a month or so.

[BOBBI G.]

Congratulations,
I am getting ready to start that process myself. Hope mine goes as easily as yours down here in Florida.

Bobbi

[Angela Campbell]

Florida is easy, I did the majority of it all within 24 hrs, but I did have to wait 3 weeks for the court date first.

[Jenessa]

Jenessa- have u had surgery or have a letter from therapist/doc? I have read that in MT you can get a name chage and have DL updated with no letter or surgery, but the sex marking and certificate had to have a letter confirming surgery- still right?

I have a letter, had to show it to the DMV and the SSA, and I sent a copy to to vital statistics office for my BC.

Thank you all for the well wishes, I am still checking my DL every 10 minutes to make sure its really true.