Get the Order recognizing your child's change of gender and change of name

Get your Order 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.
• If the clerk kept it when you filed, tell the clerk they have it.
• If you have the Order Recognizing Minor's Change of Gender and Sex Identifier and for Issuance of New Birth Certificate (form NC-530) take it with you.

The clerk will process your Order and return it to you, signed by the judge and filed.

Once you have a signed Order, ask the court clerk to get a certified copy.

To change your child’s legal ID documents, you will need a certified copy of the Order. The clerk can do this for you.

There is a $40 fee for each certified copy. If you have a fee waiver, you will not have to pay this fee. 

Take the certified copy of your Order to the different agencies that issued the IDs you have to update for your child.

For example, take it to the:

• Social Security Office near you to change their social security card and records 

• DMV to change their driver’s license or ID (if they have one)

• Office of Vital Records to get an amended (updated) birth certificate  

• US Passport office to change their passport

Learn how to contact each agency where you might need to update your child's records

Agency info to change name  

Agencies have different rules about how to update a gender marker or sex identifier

Agency info to change gender marker