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

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

How to get a signed and filed Order

  • Get your Order rom 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 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

    ⚠️ Your child's records are not updated automatically with their new name. 
    You must take a copy of the Order to each government agency where you need to update your child's ID or record. There may be different rules to update their name and to update their gender marker or sex identifier, so make sure you check both links below.

    Agency information to update name 

    Agency information to change gender marker

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

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