These organizations and websites can offer guidance to transgender people needing to change their gender markers or names on identity documents.

BIRTH CERTIFICATES

Lambda Legal has compiled a state-by-state directory of birth certificate guidelines.

DRIVER’S LICENSES

The National Center for Transgender Equality offers this guide to rules on changing your gender marker or your name on a driver’s licenses: www.transequality.org/Resources/DL/DL_policies.html

FEDERAL LAW

Another resource from the National Center for Transgender Equality: www.transequality.org/Resources/NCTE_Blueprint_for_Equality2012_ID_Documents.pdf

NAME CHANGES AND OTHER STATE-SPECIFIC ASSISTANCE:

• Chicago House TransLIFE Center, Chicago, IL: chicagohouse.org/?post_causes=translife-center
• FreeState Legal, Baltimore, MD: freestatelegal.org/
• Gender Health Center, Sacramento, CA: thegenderhealthcenter.org/
• Gender Justice Nevada, Las Vegas, NV: http://genderjusticenv.org/
• GLBT Colorado, Denver, CO: glbtcolorado.org
• L.A. Gay and Lesbian Center, Los Angeles, CA: lalgbtcenter.org/
• Freedom Center for Social Justice LGBTQ Law Center, Charlotte, NC: fcsj.org/main/the-freedom-center-for-social-justice-lgbt-law-center/
• Make Justice Happen, Houston, TX: https://www.makejusticehappen.org/transgender
• Mazzoni Center, Philadelphia, PA: mazzonicenter.org
• New York Legal Assistance Group, New York, NY: nylag.org
• Oklahoma Equality Center, Tulsa, OK: okeq.org/
• OutFront Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN: outfront.org
• QLaw, Seattle, WA: q-law.org
• Sylvia Rivera Law Project, New York, NY: srlp.org
• Transformative Justice Law Project, Chicago, IL: tjlp.org
• Transgender Law Center (San Francisco): transgenderlawcenter.org
• Trans Legal Advocates of Washington (TransLAW), Washington, DC (including Maryland and Virginia): translawdc.org/clinic
• Transgender Legal Defense and Education Project (TLDEF), New York, NY: transgenderlegal.org
• Whitman-Walker Health Legal Services, Washington, DC: whitman-walker.org

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