You can change your legal name or gender-marker to have accurate legal identification. The Oregon legislature passed HB2673 in 2017, which simplified the name and gender-marker change process in the state. This was Oregon’s first stand-alone transgender justice law. The CLEAR Clinic can help you through the legal process of changing your name or gender-marker.

Anyone over the age of 14 is eligible. Unemancipated persons under age 18 need to notify both parents and at least one parent will need to be a petitioner.

Once an intake form is submitted, someone from the CLEAR Clinic will review your form and contact you. They will help walk you through the application process.

Step 1: filing a petition in your circuit court to change your name with the State of Oregon

Step 2: submitting an application with the Social Security Office.

Step 3: Updating your Oregon driver’s license and/or state ID.

Step 4: If you were born in Oregon, then also update your Oregon birth certificate.

Step 5: Updating your U.S. passport.

According to a study by SSM Population Health, “Legal gender affirmation was significantly associated with lower reports of depression, anxiety, somatization, global psychiatric distress, and upsetting responses to gender-based mistreatment.”

There is a $124.00 filing fee. If that amount is not feasible for you to pay, you can submit a fee waiver along with your Circuit Court application. Please let us know in your intake form if you are interested in a fee waiver form. We have a sample form in our self-help resources, here.