Transgender ny

Please be sure the order includes the following information needed to identify the individual named on the birth certificate: original name, date and place of birth.

2. Less than a week later, the judge had signed the court order.

The rest is easy. Clerks can be kind and helpful or by the book and severe. When you buy the index number you’ll have to write it on the petition you’re going to give them (there will be a space on the petition for it).

3) The County Clerk should take a copy of your Petition and Birth Certificate (a copy of it) and you should have a receipt and your index number (you did write it down, didn’t you?).

4) Once you have your index number write it down on all of your remaining Petitions and Orders.

*Sanity Check*
So far you should have your Index Number, two remaining copies of your Petition to Change Name, all three of your Orders, Your certified copy of your Birth Certificate as well as a photocopy.

Our antidiscrimination laws mean that non-religious health care providers and employers cannot exclude gender-affirming care. As Becky Allison’s site notes, NY State has two kinds of birth certificates, a short and a long form.

(May vary per county. Get extra copies if you feel that you may need them. The key points I have to add are: a) the likelihood of getting an anti-TS judge when seeking a court order, and some possible solutions, and b) info for changing name on driver’s license. Sometimes this line is long but moves fast, other times, it is short but crawls.

Petitioner (Old Name) shall be know as and by the name(s) (New Name). These laws also bar discrimination based on your relationship to someone who is LGBTQ+.

New York Executive Law §§292, 296 (the NY Human Rights Law); New York Civil Rights Law § 40-c; New York State Constitution, Art. 1, § 11 (the Equal Rights Amendment); 9 NYCRR § 466.13(d); Guidance on Gender Identity Discrimination Protections

Schools

It is illegal for educational institutions—including public schools, public colleges and universities, and non-religious private schools—to discriminate against you because of your sex, sexual orientation, and gender identity or expression.

I got into an argument with the clerk about the need for an item I submitted. But I am a lawyer myself – and now that I have a copy of the order I could definately guide anyone through the process. Proof that an operation occurred is no longer necessary” (NB I have a photocopy of this memo, which I can scan in to be posted online so people can print it out and take it into the DMV – the clerks I encountered were not aware of it, and it was very helpful to have both the court order, the therapist’s letter, AND a copy of the DMV policy).

They are at:

http://srlp.org/documents.html

You will need an original of your birth certificate from the issuing agency or another court approved document, along with an original of the doctor’s (or therapist’s) letter, if you have one. If you have records showing that both names refer to you, then you are a case of an A.K.A.

Private and public insurers subject to state law cannot exclude coverage for medically necessary gender-affirming care.

New York has also taken a number of steps to protect families accessing gender-affirming care in our state. After my explanation, the clerk understood what I was doing. Five Orders seems to be a good number to start with.

Change your name on your social security card first.

You are done. Note: YOU WILL NOT GET YOUR BIRTH CERTIFICATE BACK.