Texas Transgender Support

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Transgender ID Change in Texas

Texas State ID Change

To change the gender marker requires the applicant to show court records or an amended birth certificate.

After a legal name change, you are required to notify the DPS within 30 days. A fee of $10 is required. In order to change your name, you must apply at any Texas Driver License office and present your marriage certificate/license or court order to initiate the change. No name will be used that has not been previously documented.

Texas Birth Certificate Change

Go to:
http://www.dshs.state.tx.us/vs/reqproc/forms.shtm

and open Form VS-2318.1A.

Print it out and fill it out.

The fees to file an amendment to a birth certificate are $15.00. The cost of a certified copy of the birth certificate is $22.00 for each certificate. The fees were raised in December of 2005. There are two styles of the birth certificate, a short form or abstract, and a long-form. The short form is printed from the computer system and will only show the new name, date of birth, place of birth, sex, and parent’s names.

The long-form is a photocopy of the original birth record filed with our office at the time of birth onto our certified paper that will show the amendment underneath. On the long form you will be able to see the old information and the new information and how it was changed. It is up to you which style of birth certificate you want. We will automatically issue the short form or abstract unless you specifically request the long-form.

Certified copy of the court order granting name and gender change

Along with your application and fees, you will need to submit a certified copy of the court order granting the name and gender change. The court order must have the original stamp or seal and signature of the clerk of the court. We can accept court orders from any state within the US. The court order does not have to come from a Texas Court if you do not live in the state of Texas.

We do not need a copy of the SRS letter or a photocopy of your driver’s license because the court will have verified all the information.

If you send us the Application, correct fees, and CERTIFIED COPY of the court order, your request will NOT be denied. The Vital Statistics Office in Austin, Texas is the only office that has the authority to make any changes or corrections to a birth certificate for a person born in the state of Texas.

Texas Vital Statistic Unit

The normal processing time for requests sent by regular mail is 6-8 weeks. Send your money, court order and application to Vital Statistics Unit MC 2096, Tx Dept of State Health Services, PO Box 149347, Austin, Texas 78714-9347.

If you would like expedited services an additional fee of $13.00 is required. $5.00 expedite fee and $8.00 for our office to overnight the birth certificate to your address once the birth certificate is amended. Please use an overnight service such as Fed-Ex, UPS, DHL, etc. Do NOT use the Post Office. They do not hand-deliver the package to our office and your request will only be delayed because it will come to our office as regular mail. If you use our expedited service, send your money, court order and application to Vital Statistics Unit MC 2096, Tx Dept of State Health Services, 1100 W. 49th Street, Austin, Texas 78756. The processing time for the expedite service is 10-15 business days.

You can make one check or money order out for the total fees. One check or money order of $37.00 for the amendment filing fee and one certified copy of the birth certificate OR $50.00 for the amendment filing fee, one certified copy of the birth certificate and the expedited fees.

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