Welcome to our one-stop hub for name and gender change information. Find out how to get a legal name change where you live and update your name/gender on state and federal IDs and records.
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For comprehensive instructions on the process of updating IDs in Florida, NCTE helped create a Florida Name and Gender Change Guide in English and Spanish! This guide was created for the Florida Chapter of the TransLatina Coalition and Arianna's Center, written and designed by Cooley LLP as a project of the National Center for Transgender Equality, and was created in partnership with Equality Florida and the National Center for Lesbian Rights.
For an online guide to the name and gender change process, see Florida Name Change Website.
For instructions on legal name changes for minors under 18 in Florida, see NCTE's Name Changes for Minors in Florida resource.
In order to update name and/or gender on a Florida ID, the applicant must submit (1) the court order for a name change and/or (2) a signed original statement on office letterhead from the attending physician stating that the applicant is undergoing appropriate clinical treatment for gender transition. The Florida Department of Highway Services and Motor Vehicles addresses name changes here, and their memo on gender marker change policy can be found here.
Florida Administrative Code allows for amendments to the sex on a birth certificate with "original, certified, or notarized supporting documentary evidence." The Bureau of Vital Statistics will accept a standard passport gender change letter as evidence of gender change.
To apply for an amended birth certificate, the applicant, parent, or legal guardian must submit:
Submit the application documents by mail to:
Department of Health
Office of Vital Statistics
ATTN: Amendment Section
P.O. Box 210
Jacksonville, FL 32231-0042