Last year, we launched a web app to assist trans people with legal name changes. Today, we’re removing the login wall and registration requirements and making everything publicly accessible.

Trans youth deserve: 🏳️‍⚧️ Access to affirming health care, 🏳️‍⚧️ The ability to make decisions about their own medical care, and 🏳️‍⚧️ To make health care decisions free from government interference. Hear more trans people speak out about their health care experiences: lambdalegal.org/speak-out/

The Department of Health and Human Services has proposed a new set of rules attempting to ban gender-affirming care for transgender youth nationwide. Take action and tell HHS: No bans on gender-affirming care.

20,000 words, 150 footnotes, 100+ timeline events = our attempt at documenting and synthesizing all the ways that the federal government has attempted to destroy access to gender-affirming care since January unbreaking.org/issues/trans...

a bit belated, but: happy to share that Namesake has partnered with Superbloom for fiscal sponsorship!

Giving people ownership over their legal name isn’t just about cutting red tape, it’s about helping trans people to safely travel, work, and access social services. Help Namesake continue our work by becoming a one-time or sustaining donor this Giving Tuesday: namesake.fyi/donate

For trans journalists, it can be a challenge to change bylines—both logistically and emotionally. @rosebroderick.bsky.social shares advice on how to do so.

Justice Jackson, dissenting, asking the *real* question here

This fight isn't over. Our case challenging President Trump's executive order will still move forward. In the meantime anyone who applies for a new, corrected, or replacement passport, or for a passport renewal, is at risk of having their passport issued bearing the sex they were assigned at birth.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court will allow the Trump administration to enforce its anti-trans and anti-nonbinary passport policy during litigation. The unsigned, four-paragraph order effectively reverses two lower-court decisions. The Democratic appointees dissent. More to come: www.lawdork.com

Last month, @eva.town and @mbbischoff.com presented at Chi Hack Night to talk about how Namesake is building support for legal name changes. Our recording is now live! Thanks @chihacknight.org for having us 💜

Per NYT: Airlines are now required to disregard gender-neutral 'X’ markers on passports when passengers check in and replace them with an 'M' for male, or an 'F' for female marker 🤨 "The new rule amounts to a data-collection change and does not affect passengers’ ability to fly."

This is tonight! Come hang out with @eva.town and me and chat about how we plan to make it easier for trans folks (and anyone) across the country to change their names.

On Tuesday, Namesake will be presenting at @chihacknight.org! Tune in at 7pm CT / 8pm ET to hear @eva.town and @mbbischoff.com talk about name changes in the U.S. and how we're building tools and communal support to make the process easier.

On Tuesday, Namesake will be presenting at @chihacknight.org! Tune in at 7pm CT / 8pm ET to hear @eva.town and @mbbischoff.com talk about name changes in the U.S. and how we're building tools and communal support to make the process easier.

Are you a trans journalist trying to change your byline? You should check out this guide I have been writing for the last few months for @theopennotebook.bsky.social, which is full of tips/tricks from me and many other trans journalists. www.theopennotebook.com/2025/07/22/h...

A reminder

No matter how many educational resources this regime wipes from .gov sites and libraries, trans people will not go back into hiding. We're fighting to make name and gender marker changes as accessible as possible.

IDs and passports don't even need to have gender markers on them. you could remove them entirely and nothing of consequence would be lost

This is something the Republican Party has been working on for some time. I first tracked it in Florida where a bill gained traction that would have taken away nonprofit status from lgbt nonprofits. Even wrote a story on it. We are very much at increased risk of these kinds of fascist crackdowns.

Today, a U.S. District Court ordered the U.S. Dept of State to process passport applications, with accurate sex markers, for 6 trans U.S. citizens. 👏 "This is a crucial victory for our clients and trans people nationwide." – Carl Charles, Lambda Legal Counsel

Since President Trump's inauguration, he has moved swiftly to reverse federal protections for transgender people. But we won’t back down from protecting our civil rights. Count on it.

1. Monica Helms, the creator of the transgender flag and Navy Veteran, is leaving the US due to anti-LGBTQ+ persecution. “We are worried there’s a possibility something could happen where we end up getting arrested just for being who we are,” Helms said. Subscribe to support our journalism.

1. My newest Anti-Trans Legal Risk Map is here. Risk has increased sharply for youth in many states as clinics shutter under Trump and state AGs refuse to enforce civil rights laws. For adults, some increases in risk. Nationwide risk remains extreme. Subscribe to support my journalism.

small, but @namesake.fyi now has an RSS feed: namesake.fyi/rss.xml

Sloane shares their story about changing their name, other names they considered, and how @masstpc.org and @namesake.fyi helped with the process 💜

What Newsom is selling about trans people is what Trump is selling his base about trans people: "your life will be better if trans people's lives are worse." It's not a purity test; it's about rejecting a politics that sells you empty promises in exchange for other people's misery

shipped the very first @namesake.fyi change based on user feedback! hooray. people are using this thingy

a fabulously wealthy person should pay me and some other trans people to work on @namesake.fyi full time

Namesake has a new web app to help people in Massachusetts to update their legal name and gender marker. (And soon: New York and beyond.) After a year of work, we're excited to share it with you today.

MASSIVE good news for trans people in the United States. A federal judge has just granted class action status to transgender people looking to update their passports. This means that very shorty, the window will open to update your passports with the correct gender marker.

BREAKING: A federal judge ruled all transgender and intersex people can obtain passports that align with their gender identity while the case against President Trump's executive order proceeds. While this is good news, we will continue fighting until this executive order is blocked permanently.

made a theme picker for Namesake based on the colors and descriptions from the original Gilbert Baker pride flag

If anyone you know is 13-24, in the US, and is LGBTQ+, please have them complete the Trevor Project survey this year. Their last survey has been integral to protecting LGBTQ+ rights globally. I can't understate how big an impact it has. Multiple publications come from the data. Share widely.

stickers!!! designed some @namesake.fyi goodies to share :) if you’ve contributed to Namesake and want stickers, DM me and I’ll hook you up! 💌 shoutout to @vickyacab.bsky.social who printed and shipped em SO FAST 🌈

There were 932 anti-LGBTQ+ incidents between May 1, 2024 and May 1, 2025 – equal to 2.5 incidents every day, according to GLAAD.

happy pride everyone! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 if you need help with the legal name change process in the US, @namesake.fyi is here to help 💜 join us on Discord: namesake.fyi/chat

It's the last day of the month and for my Patreon this morning I wrote about an outrageous Mississippi Supreme Court ruling denying a trans teen's name change request. It sets a dangerous precedent for government overreach into the private lives of citizens. www.patreon.com/posts/missis...

1. In a landmark ruling, a federal judge has blocked the passport ban for transgender Americans... government ban likely violates equal protection, and is made with animus. Though the ruling only applies to plaintiffs, it is expected expand in coming weeks. Subscribe to support my journalism.

BREAKING: A federal judge finds Trump’s order banning transgender people from getting accurate passports is likely unconstitutional. The court ordered the State Department to allow correct gender markers for our clients as we continue to argue until this order is blocked for everyone.

Another Texas bill that has no chance of passing, but its wild what the fringe is putting out there. Literally makes it "fraud" to be trans.

The U.S. has pulled out of the United Nations’ LGBTI Core Group, which supports the rights of LGBTQ+ and intersex people around the world.

Nearly 90 Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives have signed a letter demanding that Donald Trump rescind his "unconstitutional" and "unconscionable" executive order restricting gender-affirming care for transgender minors and some adults.

NEW: Iowa governor signs bill removing gender identity from state civil rights protections, making Iowa the first state to remove civil rights from a previously protected class. For @nbcnews.com: www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-...

“I just wanna say trans people are beautiful. We are never going to stop existing. I’m never gonna stop being trans, a letter on a passport can’t change that, and fuck this administration.”