About
Your Identity Transitions
Your Identity Transitions is a nonprofit charitable corporation that offers a quality service that is efficient and easy to help you legally change your name and gender marker on identification documents such as your birth certificate, driver's license, social security card, and US passport.
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OUR VISION
To empower members of the transgender and queer community to be their real selves without worry, discomfort, and fear.
OUR MISSION
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Provide legal name and/or gender marker change services to the transgender, queer community, and other parties,
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Assist with filing petitions for name and gender marker change with the appropriate court,
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Assist in updating name and gender marker on government identification documents including, but not limited to, the birth certificate, driver’s license, Social Security card, and passport,
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Assist with updating name and gender marker with other agencies, businesses, and organizations,
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Assist with paperwork, documentation and obtaining other identification and other services related to navigating the bureaucratic landscape as requested.
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Your Identity Transitions is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation registered in the State of Montana.
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Disclosure from Non-lawyer
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Employees and volunteers of Your Identity Transitions are nonlawyers and cannot give legal advice, or advise you on your rights or remedies, or instruct you on how to testify in court. Furthermore, none of the employees or volunteers is a paralegal and cannot use the term "paralegal.”
In addition, employees and volunteers may only type the factual information provided by the client in writing into the blanks on forms. They may not tell clients what to put in the form. If using a form approved by the court and agencies, they may ask factual questions to fill in the blanks on the form and may also tell the client how to file the form and assist in filing the form.​
Michele Seggelink (she/her)
Director of Operations
Hi, I am is Aria's mother and her partner with Your Identity Transitions. My first experience helping a trans person with changing their name and gender marker with the state and on government identification documents was with Aria. It was then that Aria and I realized that many trans and queer people wanting to legally change their name and gender marker may find it very difficult to navigate the process alone. My goal is to help make the experience as easy and trouble free as possible for their clients.
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I am a certified family mediator with extensive experience with court filings and government forms. My education also includes a B.S. in Psychology from Texas A&M University, and a M.S. in Neuroscience from the University of Florida.
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I currently lives in Trego, Montana with my husband, and our labradoodle, Winnie, and pyredoodle, Shaila, where I enjoy hiking, camping, snowshoeing, and working on our land.
Aria Davda (she/her)
Executive Director
I am a biracial, trans woman. I have a degree in Criminal Justice from the University of Texas Arlington and have always had the goal of helping to improve my fellow queer community. It was during my own transition that I fully realized how much I could help with navigating the nightmare bureaucracy behind updating government identification. I know how scary, frustrating, and downright confusing the whole process can be and want to simplify the ordeal as much as possible. I am very in touch with the queer community and committed to ensuring a safe and validating experience.
I am 27 and currently live in Portland, Oregon with my girlfriend. I enjoy video games such as World of Warcraft, sitcom TV shows, and dogs in sweaters.