This is Wrong: One Trans Guy’s Lived Experience with Social Security, Name Changes, and Gender Markers

About this episode

The episode discusses a trans man's experience with changing his name and gender marker on official documents.

Send a text #8 This one is for you if you have been struggling with your own Trans identity and the desire to claim your name on your social security card, driver's license, and the important documents that support claiming your true and authentic identity. Today I share my lived experience going to the Social Security Administration with a legal court order to change my name and a request to update my gender marker with the U.S. Government. Join me as I share my own painful experience with a...

People in this episode

Host: Queer Carter

Topics covered

• trans identity
• name changes
• gender markers
• social security
• lived experience

Keywords

• trans identity
• name change
• gender marker
• social security
• lived experience

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Social Security Administration, U.S. Government

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