In order for the Division of Vital Records to change your sex and name on your birth certificate, we require a Court Order indicating that both your name and sex are to be changed.
You can likely obtain an amended Court Order to indicate the correct sex along with your new name. We cannot change the sex on a birth certificate with just a physician’s letter.
The amended birth certificate does not retain any reference to the original.
Once you obtain this information, send True Test Copy or Original Court Order to Division of Vital Records.
There is a $12.00 fee for each certified copy of the corrected/changed birth certificate. Checks or money orders should be made payable to: “Division of Vital Records”
Code:
(5) Upon receipt of a certified copy of an order of a court of competent jurisdiction indicating the sex of an individual born in this state has been changed by surgical procedure and whether such individual’s name has been changed, the Secretary shall amend the certificate only of the individual as prescribed by regulation.
CONTACT INFORMATION
Kathryn A. Morris, Birth Section Chief
Division of Vital Records
PO Box 68760
Baltimore, MD 21215-0020
(410) 764-3145
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