Updating Identity documents

Changing the name and gender marker designation on your identity documents can be a long and stressful process.  In an in-person meeting, we can complete your paperwork together, and I can walk you through the process one step at a time.

Unable to come in-person? If provided with all the needed information over the phone, I can do your paperwork for you and mail it to you all completed and ready to be submitted!

Insurance navigation & appeals

Not sure where to start to obtain insurance approval for services? Together, we can:

• Pick an insurance plan that is best for coverage of gender affirming care

• Demystify the insurance approval and/or appeal process

• Find a primary care doctor, mental health provider or surgeon that takes your insurance

• Provide template WPATH letters to give to your medical and mental health providers that will strengthen your chances at receiving an insurance approval

• Write a strong appeal letter on your behalf to try to overturn your denial and gain access to your much needed services

Accompaniments

• To doctor appointments

• To the court house, or any agency or institution involved in the process to change name and gender marker designations on identity documents

Other types of support or advocacy

• Support in making difficult phone calls

• Mediation between you and loved one(s) or institutions that may be struggling with respecting your gender identity

• Post-op visitations or check-ins

• Help finding a trans health expert near you

• Provide template letters requesting reasonable accommodation regarding the need to address you by your chosen name and/or pronoun, to provide gender neutral restrooms, or to allow you to access the restroom/locker room in which you feel safest