Getting Documents Changed (USA)
Hey everyone,
I know the legal protocol for changing passports and social security info. I'm sort of non-op/pre-op ish and I have changed my name, but I'm unable to change my legal gender (except on my CA driver's license).
Lately I've considered going to one or more of these government offices and presenting myself as a young woman who has an error on her documents that need to be fixed to reflect reality...an error that I missed when I got the document printed out.
I remember one time my insurance didn't go through at the pharmacy because the gender on my insurance record and the gender my pharmacist typed in didn't match - the pharmacist saw me as female while my insurance record listed my birth sex. Then when the pharmacist phoned my insurance, instead of the pharmacist changing my info to say my birth sex, he got the insurance to change my info to female.
Has anyone ever tried this approach? Not mentioning transition, but just posing it as an error on your record. How'd it go?
I know the legal protocol for changing passports and social security info. I'm sort of non-op/pre-op ish and I have changed my name, but I'm unable to change my legal gender (except on my CA driver's license).
Lately I've considered going to one or more of these government offices and presenting myself as a young woman who has an error on her documents that need to be fixed to reflect reality...an error that I missed when I got the document printed out.
I remember one time my insurance didn't go through at the pharmacy because the gender on my insurance record and the gender my pharmacist typed in didn't match - the pharmacist saw me as female while my insurance record listed my birth sex. Then when the pharmacist phoned my insurance, instead of the pharmacist changing my info to say my birth sex, he got the insurance to change my info to female.
Has anyone ever tried this approach? Not mentioning transition, but just posing it as an error on your record. How'd it go?