Illinois Transgender Support

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Transgender ID Change in Illinois

Illinois State ID Change

To change the gender marker, requires a report from a medical clinic to indicate that genital realignment surgery has taken place or the applicant is in the process of undergoing treatment, however, a court order is preferred.

Within 10 days of changing your name or address, you are required by law to notify the Secretary of State of the change. If you change your name, you must obtain a corrected driver’s license, corrected title, and corrected registration ID card before the Secretary of State records can be changed. A corrected driver’s license must be obtained at a driver services facility. You will be required to show identification with your new name and identification that links your old and new names. Vehicle registration forms may also be completed at the driver services facility, or these forms can be mailed to you.

The current fee for a corrected card is $5 for a driver’s license and $10 for an identification card.

Illinois Birth Certificate Change

First, you should follow the instructions on their website: http://www.idph.state.il.us/vitalrecords/gender.htm. This definitely appears to be the easiest way to start the process.

Or you may write to the following address:

Department of Public Health
Division of Vital Records
605 W. Jefferson Street
Springfield, IL 62702

Ask them to fax you what you need to get signed by the doctor and notarized, top and bottom (see below). Make sure you specify name and sex aka gender change form. They can also mail it to you snail mail; but it is easier to get it faxed then signed, notarized, and send in your fifteen dollars for one copy, two dollars for each one after that.

Illinois Vital Records

A third alternative is to call 217.782.6554 and ask for Vital Records, then ask for the birth certificate change department. My correspondents don’t recommend the telephone contact because some persons in the office have been less than helpful on the phone.

and ask for a “request for change of name and sex form.”

This form has two parts. The top is “an affidavit by a physician as to change of sex designation.” If you get the form before SRS, you can ask your surgeon to fill it out and get it notarized. Otherwise, you can send a separate notarized letter from the surgeon as usual. The bottom part is “affidavit by a parent, guardian, or applicant, if of legal age.” That part is obvious except for the line:

“THAT the following were the personal particulars at the time of birth of_____________ ” Complete this line using “John Doe, now Jane Doe” or the opposite as indicated.

Complete this form and return it to this address:

Department of Public Health
Division of Vital Records
605 W. Jefferson Street
Springfield, IL 62702

IMPORTANT: Send it by Priority Mail!

Include the original letter from your SRS surgeon (unless the surgeon complete the top part of the form as above) and a certified copy of the name change order, and a check for $15.00 made out to “Vital Records”. Additional copies are $2.00 each.

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