Legally female!

[Ceera]

Whooo hoo! Today I saw the county judge, and got my legal name and gender marker changed! And before lunch I got it updated with Social Security and for my car’s title and registration and for my driver’s license! So Ceera is now my legal first name, and I am legally female, at last!

[Jeri Ann]

Woo Hoo! Congratulations Ceera.

[Macey]

Congratulations! Not fair though, most driver's license photos are terrible. GM, GG, somewhere in between, they're all terrible, and yet you ended up with a gorgeous photo! :D

[Lana Mae]

Congrats, Ceera! Ya ho!!! I still am not quite that far yet! So, happy for you! Hugs Lana Mae

[AllieSF]

Congratulations. I got my legal name and gender change on March 05, 2019, and like you, I went straight to the Social Security office and changed everything there. Today I received through the mail my new photo Drivers License, which includes the Real ID element so that I can use it as legal identity to fly domestically in 2020. The real ID is needed on your Drivers License to be able to use it as legal identification starting in or after June 2020, I think. It required a lot of extra identity proof.

[Devi SM]

Amazing! Great for you Ceera, just one question, your license driver expires next month?

[Crissy 107]

Ceera, Congrats! Another milestone done!

[Ceera]

Allie: Not sure if the new license will meet the RealID requirements. Oregon keeps getting an extension on complying. I plan to get a Passport to be safe, once I have the final license, new Social Security card, and an ammended birth certificate.

Vanessa: paper temp card is only good for a month. The plastic one will come in the mail in a week or so, and should be good for 6 years.

[Richelle]

Congratulations. I know exactly how you are feeling. I felt the same way when I got my drivers license with my new name and the gender marker as F. One of the best days ever

[grace7777]

Congratulations!

Like Ceera and Allie, after getting my name and gender changed legally, I went right to the Social Security Office.

[Jeri Ann]

I plan to get a Passport to be safe, once I have the final license, new Social Security card, and an amended birth certificate.

Ceera,

DL and SS are easy peezy, take a number and have the fee and form ready. Passport is a different matter. It took me three attempts and several months.

Medicare might be a challenge also. Supposedly it happens automatically because it is connected to Social Security. It doesn't. And, there is not a medicare office to go to.

The change with Medicare required hanging tough with Social Security until I found someone who could figure it out. Maybe you will get lucky in that respect.

I may have been the first person in Texas to go through that. Lol

[Lisalove1976]

Wow what a great day...must feel amazing

congratulations

Lisa

[Dorit]

Ceera, I am happy to hear you have passed another milestone in your transition! I recently changed my gender on my US passport (I am a dual US-Israel citizen). I did it in one visit to the US Embassy in Tel Aviv after researching on the net all the requirements. If you would like to know the requirements, which are very specific, PM me, I am happy to help.:)

[Ceera]

Thanks everyone!

By the end of the day I also had my credit union sorted out, and they quickly issued me a new debit card with my new name on it! So I was able to go out with my daughter for a celebration dinner, and pay for the first time with a card that had my new name on it! Updating it on my mortgagee will take a bit longer, but should go smoothly.

Passport should not be too hard for me. I have never had one, so I won't have to go through the hoops for changing vital information. And even if they do give me push-back, I have a court-ordered change in hand.

I am on Medicaid now. Won't be old enough for Medicare for a few more years. Updating my name and gender with the Oregon department that processes Medicaid was actually very easy. Did it over the phone this morning. Their main prerequisite was that Social Security had to already be updated, and that was literally the first thing I did yesterday morning, after getting the court judgement processed. They will propagate that change to my Medicaid-assigned insurance provider and to my doctor and specialists.

While out at dinner last night I texted my sister, to let her know she legally has a sister now, and not a brother. She is still having a tough time adjusting to the changes I am going through, but she is trying to be supportive, and wants me to be happy. We have always been very close, and I think it is harder on her than on anyone else in my life.

[Nigella]

Another congratulations from this side of the pond :love:

[pamela7]

congratulations!!!!

[Aunt Kelly]

Happy for you, Ceera. The "official documents" aren't who we are, but the define us in many important ways.
😃

[Tina June]

Ceera - I am just going to say it... You Go GIRL!

Congratulations!

[Adelaide]

Congrats! I'm so happy for you. Hope things turn for the best with your sister.

[donnalee]

Mazeltov!!

[Jeri Ann]

Passport should not be too hard for me. I have never had one, so I won't have to go through the hoops for changing vital information. And even if they do give me push-back, I have a court-ordered change in hand.

A first time passport requires a certified copy of your birth certificate. Maybe that will be easy too in the state where you were born.

[Ceera]

Jeri Ann, yes, Oregon makes it easy to amend my birth certificate, too. Though it looks like the fastest and most certain route will require me to do a day trip to vital records office in the county I was born in (2 hour drive), so I can present the supporting documents (my court order and new driver license) in person, and get the certified copies the same day. And my new birth certificates will display my new gender and name, without reference to there ever having been a prior name or gender for me! I could do it by mail, but the forms I found on line were a bit unclear to me for how to indicate changing both name and sex in one action, with no annotation about the change. So safer to do the day trip to my old home town. And a perfect excuse to go shopping in a larger city, when done!

[GracieRose]

Congratulations Ceera. So happy for you.
Another milestone on your journey completed.

[Sarah Doepner]

Congrats and Cheers! I raise a glass to your efforts, successes and happiness!