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Get the order recognizing your child's change of gender

If the judge approves your request, you will get an Order. That’s the document you will use to change your child’s gender marker or sex identifier on all their legal documents. 

How to get a signed and filed order

  • Get your order from the court clerk

    1. Get the Order Recognizing Minor’s Change of Gender and Sex Identifier and for Issuance of New Birth Certificate (form NC-530) (link opens in a new tab) from the clerk if you don't already have one. 
      • If you did not have to go to a hearing, or you did go but you didn’t get the Order at the hearing, go to the clerk’s office. 
      • Take the Order (form NC-530) with you. If the clerk kept it when you first filed, tell the clerk they have it.
    2. The clerk will process your Order and return it to you, signed by the judge and filed.

  • Get a certified copy of your Order

    • Get a certified copy of your Order so you can change your child's legal ID documents.
      • This means the clerk adds an official stamp to your Order that says the copy is true copy of the original. 
      • Depending on how many legal ID documents you want to update, you can ask for more than one certified Order. 
    • 💵 There is a $40 fee for each certified copy. If you have a fee waiver, you will not have to pay this fee.

  • Change your child’s legal ID documents

    Take the certified copy of your Order to the different agencies that issued the IDs with gender markers or sex identifiers.

    For example, take it to the:

    • State Registrar to get an amended (updated) birth certificate if your child was born in California.

    • DMV to change your child’s driver’s license or ID, if they have one. 

    • Social Security Administration to update their social security record

    ⚠️ Your child's records are not updated automatically with their gender marker. 
    You must take a copy of the Order to each government agency where you need to update your child's ID or record. 

    Agency information to change gender marker

You are done with the court's gender recognition process. You use your Order to update your child's IDs and other legal documents.

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