Free resources for transgender people living in New England (Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island or Vermont) seeking to update their legal name and gender on federal and state documents.

Fill out the intake form.

Questions about your ID and voting in this year’s election?

Visit Transform the Vote’s online resource: Voting While Trans: Preparing for Voter ID Laws 

Download PDFs:
Voting While Trans Guide
Guía Para Votar Siendo Trans

Self-Directed Guides

In most cases you do not need to work with a lawyer to update your name or gender marker on ID documents and can typically update these documents fairly easily on your own.

Visit our Quick Reference Guides for help updating the following documents:

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Resource: Quick reference guides to change your ID documents in New England

This is a joint project of GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD), Ropes & Gray LLP, Goodwin, and Shipman & Goodwin LLP.