Does this sound like anyone you know? Four months ago, Cindy Sanders, 68, bought a new computer so she could stay in touch with her grandchildren. She wanted to follow them on Facebook and have Zoom chats, to be part of their lives. So where is that computer? It’s still...
A recent article in the San Francisco Chronicle highlighted the Bay Area transgender community’s anxiety about identification issues under the new Trump administration. If you’re not trans, it’s not a big deal Routine procedures that the rest of us never think about can become crises for many trans people. “People take their...
People change their names for a variety of reasons, but one situation that’s getting a lot more attention is that of transgender people changing their names to one that’s more appropriate to their new gender or the one to which they identify. For many transgender people, it’s been a long,...
A family came into our Oakland office recently wanting to know if we could help them legally change their names. With an estimated 50% of marriages ending in divorce, blended families are not unusual, but in this case there were five people with four last names and it was the...
