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Original questions:How can I change my surname? Hello guys. i want to change my surname. am 20 years old boy. what should I do? What is the procedure?andMy surname reveals my ethnicity, how can I change it?Changing your name is a legal matter that depends on where you live. Every place has its own laws for this. In addition to - I am not a lawyer and this is not legal advice - I can't answer universally, as it has to be specific for wherever in the world you might be.Some places require publication in a newspaper. Some require registration of the name change with a government office (vital records). Some require the approval of a judge. (Many women get their names changed as part of getting married; if you live in a very progressive, e.g. gay-friendly place, they may now let the man change his name when getting married.)BUT - without knowing your particular surname - I would advise caution, and delay, and contemplation.My mother's maiden name is Krauter. When my German ancestors immigrated to the US in the 1850s, Kräuter just meant that someone was an herb farmer, who raised and sold vegetables (as opposed to tuber plants, orchard plants, etc.). Kraut often is synonymous with cabbages. (Weißkraut for white cabbage, rotkraut for red cabbage, etc. Interestingly, unkraut or "not a kraut" means a weed. )In the US in WWI, it became an issue to have ANY German surname, and in some places mobs came at night with torches and demanded that people of German descent bring out any books they had in the German language, and burned them in a bonfire. In WWII, the "Krauts" was what the US GIs called the Germans. Being a Krauter wasn't popular. Some thought Krauters would be disloyal to the United States.But, it's OK now. No one minds that my cousins still proudly bear the Krauter name. (And some of them are still farmers, in California and in Ohio!) Indeed, most people haven't really thought about "Krauter" even being German, and if they did, they wouldn't mind. The name has been traced back at least to my 8th-great grandfather, farming in Württemberg (Germany), 8 km east of the Rhine River, born about 1670, and goes from him into the unknown distant past.It is that Krauter name that connects me to this branch of my history, and also to that Krauter part of me. Whenever I eat sauerkraut, or even just go to a farmers' market, I feel closer to my ancestral farmers.So, your surname reveals your ethnicity. So does EVERYONE's.What's wrong with your ethnicity? Why not share it proudly?If there are problems in the world with your name on them (literally), changing your name will hide you from that problem, but it won't fix that problem.Be brave. Honor the ancestors who gave you your genes, your culture, and your name. If others don't honor that name, persist. Bear up. Remain proud. Teach your children to be proud.Some day, your descendants will still have a tie from you, and your ancestors, directly to them. And "society" will get past whatever temporary issues there are with people of your surname.I wish you good fortunes, whatever your surname is.

There have been a few instances of doctor blurting, insensitivity, or rudeness in regards to my being a transgender man over the past 30 years.During 1997, I had a new primary care physician in Westlake, Ohio, near Cleveland. This female physician was treating me for a sinus infection that was affecting my vision. She also prescribed testosterone cypionate for me. The doctor suggested strongly that I have someone else drive me home. I replied, “That’s alright. My wife is driving me home.” The doctor responded angrily, “You mean ‘your girlfriend’, don’t you?!” I said, “No. I mean my wife whom I’m legally married to.” I will stop right here and explain briefly that I transitioned to male from female, hormonally and surgically during 1988. I was born in California and at the time of my transition, a 1977 law required us to have gender reassignment surgery and hormonal therapy in order to have our original birth certificates sealed and a new one with our new name and gender put on record with the state following a court order that required the judge to review our medical records.“Your marriage isn’t legal!” The physician screamed. “Well, it is.” I smiled back. The physician screamed again, “A birth certificate is a doctor’s sworn testament that you were born female! And you are still female as far as I am concerned!” I began to explain to her that without changing our birth certificates and accompanying identity documents, it places us in the position of being physically attacked, killed, or simply discriminated against in regards to employment, housing, education, adoption, marriage, etc. But, she wasn’t listening to anything I had to say. This experience added to the arsenal of bad experiences that I already had, but I used those bad experiences to teach others in healthcare, protective services, education, and clergy about how different life can be when you treat everyone with respect. At that point in my life, I had spent almost two decades speaking on speakers panels, first for PFLAG, and then with TransFamily of Cleveland that modeled its self after PFLAG’s goal to educate and eradicate fear and misinformation.I got off of the exam table and left. I wrote a letter to the appropriate department at the University Hospital organization reporting the behavior of the physician. I was never contacted. I doubt if anything happened. I am not sure that in Ohio today that the outcome would be any different. Ohio is the only state left in the U.S. that does not allow transgender people to change their gender marker on their state of Ohio birth certificates. The culture and attitude of many in Ohio still seems to reflect that they would like to punish us for being transgender, instead of being able to live a happy life as who we genuinely are.During March, 2018, 4 transgender individuals filed in the state Court in Columbus, Ohio, to overturn the law preventing them from changing their gender markers on their Ohio birth certificates. My fingers are crossed.