Trusted Help With Name and Gender Marker Changes

Affordable help with name changes, gender marker changes, and the paperwork each one needs.

  • Support People and Animals

Types of Legal Support We Arrange

Name Changes

Help preparing and filing the paperwork a legal name change requires, with a professional handling the details.

Gender Marker Changes

Support updating the gender marker on identity documents, matched to the process each document actually uses.

Related Documents

Assistance with the records, filings, and updates that follow a legal change of name or gender marker.

Careful, Respectful, and Private

Changing your documents is administrative work with a great deal riding on it. The point of this project is to make that work affordable and calm.

  • Qualified Professionals Only
  • Costs Kept Down
  • Treated With Respect
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Frequently Asked Questions

No. This project is not a law firm and does not provide legal advice or legal representation, and contacting us does not create an attorney-client relationship. What we do is connect people with Legal Document Assistants and attorneys who are qualified to handle the matter, and reduce the cost and confusion of getting there.

It starts with working out which documents actually need to change for your situation, because that differs from person to person. From there the right professional prepares and files what is required, and you are told at each stage what has been submitted and what is still outstanding. The timeline belongs to the courts and agencies rather than to us.

Costs depend on which documents are involved and what the professional handling them charges, and court or agency fees sit on top of that. Nothing is agreed before you know the number. Reducing the financial barrier is the whole reason this project exists, so tell us your situation and we will be honest about what is realistic.

A Legal Document Assistant or an attorney, depending on what your matter needs. Part of the work here is making that judgment correctly, because sending someone to the wrong kind of professional wastes their money and their time. You are told who you are being referred to and why.

No. You will be asked what documents you want changed and the practical details needed to change them, and nothing beyond that. This is paperwork, and it should feel like paperwork. If you would like to support the work behind it, there are several ways to give.

Tranz Legal is one of two direct projects. The other is resQdogs, which pulls dogs out of bad situations and keeps others out of them by supporting owners through hard months. Charitable projects run by other people can also apply to our sponsorship program.

Start the Paperwork

Tell us which documents you want changed and we will work out the right next step.

  • Referrals Matched to Need
  • No Judgment, No Lectures
  • Costs Explained Up Front
  • Support People and Animals
  • Board Governed