👋 We hope you’re hangin’ in there this summer. While we’ve been hard at work writing in-depth name change guides on a per-state basis, our contributors have added contacts for orgs supporting name changes in Illinois, Kentucky, and North Carolina! namesake.fyi/directory

Directory

Need more name change support? These organizations can help.

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Times are tough right now, which makes the fact that we nearly met our Pride Month fundraising goal even more special! 💜 A massive thanks to our friends, community and loved ones for their support. We can’t wait to deliver more updates soon. Feel free to join us in the meantime: namesake.fyi/chat

Namesake@namesake.fyi · 2mo ago

Happy Pride Month from us at Namesake 💜 We’re living in dangerous and uncertain times, but our team is committed to helping empower trans people through our tools and resources.

This is cool (the first one especially)

sending love to every trans person coping with today's awful Supreme Court ruling. this is not the first time queer + trans people have come under attack, and it probably won't be the last. we will get through this together, as we always have. 💜 ky and the namesake crew

fuck the supreme court and love to all my trans friends. we all gotta live to see the day that this system crumbles

I'm so sad. No one should be forced to remain closeted in order to meaningfully participate in the sports they love. That's what I was forced to do and no one should experience that.

No ruling will ever change what we know to be true: trans youth deserve to play, to learn + to exist freely. Trans youth need to know their community is with them, no matter what the Supreme Court says. Share this post + leave a note of support so every trans young person knows they are not alone.💜

Kris Ripper said she changed her Kansas license because the state required it. Then a traffic stop over headlights turned into questions about whether her ID was valid.

Now with search 🔍

Thanks to one of our contributors, Namesake forms now include address autocomplete! 📍 This feature should help prevent typos and answer the common question, "what county am I in?" We hope it makes filling out forms a little easier 💜

aformentioned stickers aquired :3

charli xkcd@ky.fyi · 2mo ago

hey y'all, I know times are tough, but if you have any $ you can spare this month for our scrappy team of volunteers building open source tools for trans people, we deeply appreciate every share and donation 💜 plus if you donate and DM or email me, I will personally mail you some stickers 💌

Did you hear? Namesake now supports Rhode Island! ⚓ We have just released guides on filing court orders, updating your ID or driver’s license, and amending your birth certificate in America’s smallest (but no less mighty) State. Get started here: namesake.fyi/blog/support... Happy Pride Month! 💜

Happy Pride Month from us at Namesake 💜 We’re living in dangerous and uncertain times, but our team is committed to helping empower trans people through our tools and resources.

In love with @namesake.fyi and their design choices for all the normal reasons but also:

hooray, Namesake has a (very baby) contributor manual docs.namesake.fyi

Forms are now easier to access! We’ve embedded them right inside of the guides that explain the steps for a name change. No more switching back and forth between tabs.

For my @xtramagazine.com column this month, I wrote about a recent controversy where a Democratic primary opponent of a trans woman in a Michigan State House race tried to get her thrown off the ballot because her candidate paperwork didn't list her deadname. xtramagazine.com/power/politi...

Michigan's election dispute reveals how name-change laws are weaponized against trans people | Xtra Magazine

Efforts to list a Michigan statehouse candidate's deadname—from within her own party—reveal the indignities baked into ID systems

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For anyone interested: We'll be at #MakeShift2026, hosted at the School of Visual Arts, where @ky.fyi will be giving a talk on Thursday, 5/21 from 1:45–2:45PM EDT! Registration info can be found here: luma.com/602z282n & More info about the event can be found here: makeshift2026.dtpr.io/program

MakeShift 2026 · Luma

MakeShift 2026: Accountable Tech by Design is taking place on May 20 and 21, 2026 in New York City. Join us for MakeShift 2026, the inaugural convening for…

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We want to hear about your usernames for a project we’re working on! Our team has been online the majority of our lives, and we all have our own stories of usernames, past and present, and how they shaped our own journeys in self-identity. Do you have a story behind yours? forms.gle/H5Z3eUhzDjRw...

Namesake has a new font: a custom version of the famous Atkinson Hyperlegible! namesake.fyi/blog/atkinso...

A new font for Namesake: Atkinson Hyperlegible Soft

Namesake has a new, custom font, designed to increase legibility and readability of text.

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Passing along an opportunity: @thehouseofdenise.bsky.social is looking for anonymous accounts of “the who, what, when & how of finding new names” in hopes of making a workbook to aide trans, nb and genderfluid people’s journeys in “trans self-exploration & determination.” forms.gle/dCBE8Yaj43e2...

Happy Trans Day of Visibility from us at Namesake! 💜🏳️‍⚧️ We've been a little quiet, but only because we're hard at work expanding into more states. (More on that soon 🤞) Check out our coverage map at namesake.fyi. If you see a state you think you can help with, or know someone who can, email / DM us!

Your name is yours to change

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Kansas is one of 5 states to prohibit trans people from changing gender markers on ID, and first to pass a law that retroactively cancels licenses.

Kansas revoked 1,700 transgender drivers’ licenses. Some are leaving the state

Kansas is one of five states to prohibit trans people from changing the gender marker on their licenses, but it is the first to pass a law that retroactively cancels licenses that were already changed...

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For Kansans: If you need help covering the costs of a new ID, transportation to the DMV, etc., both the LGBTQ Foundation of Kansas and Equality El Dorado have set up mutual aid funds to help: LGBTQ Foundation of Kansas: lgbtqks.org/sb244/ Equality El Dorado: equalityeldorado@gmail.com

If you don't see the problem with forcing this man to carry an F for female on his driver's license then I don't know what to tell you

This story, from @natezuke.bsky.social, is absolutely wild. A trans woman who never changed her gender marker was issued a letter invalidating her license. At the DMV they cut up her license, which had an "M" marker. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

She’d Never Changed Her Gender Marker. Kansas Invalidated Her License Anyway. — Assigned

A trans Kansas resident recently changed her name but not her gender marker on her license, fearing what Kansas may do if she did. The Kansas DMV still flagged her ID.

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once again, i am begging everyone to turn some of their energy towards abolishing the concept of legal gender. there is no reason gender has to be on driver's licenses and passports, and for most of history, it wasn't!

Jessica Kant@jessdkant.bsky.social · 5mo ago

As of tonight, licenses of trans people across Kansas are being invalidated en masse, enabling the overnight criminalization of an entire group of people for going about our lives. It’s often said you never know when you’re living through history, so let me assure you: that’s what’s happening now.

MAKE AN EMERGENCY DONATION to Trans Continental Pipeline right now. They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate there and they are overwhelmed with requests. CO borders KS, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out. GO DONATE. tcpipeline.org