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. Our goal is to empower our clients to be their real selves without worry, discomfort, or fear. Our services are available remotely over the phone as well as Zoom and Discord. We will work with your schedule and offer our services during the workday as well as in the evening. We strive to make the process as comfortable and easy for you as possible.
Book a Free Consultation to learn more about how Your Identity Transitions can help you legally change your name and gender marker on all your identification documents.
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If you are ready for us to help you, Request a Quote to learn about the court and agency costs.
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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 Davda (she/her)
Executive Director & Board President
Michele is Aria's mother and her partner with Your Identity Transitions. Her 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 she and Aria 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. Michele's goal is to help make the experience as easy and trouble free as possible for their clients.
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Michele is a certified mediator and divorce specialist with extensive experience with court filings and government forms. She is also the owner of Your Voice Mediation, a service that helps individuals find solutions to disputes. Her 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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Michele currently lives in Trego, Montana with her partner, Pete, and their labradoodle, Winnie, and pyredoodle, Shaila, where she enjoys hiking, camping, snowshoeing, and working on their land.
Aria Davda (she/her)
Director of Operations & Board Secretary/Treasurer
Aria is Michele’s daughter and a trans woman. Aria has a degree in Criminal Justice from the University of Texas Arlington and has always had the goal of helping to improve her fellow queer community. It was during her own transition that she fully realized how much she could help with navigating the nightmare bureaucracy behind updating government identification. She knows how scary, frustrating, and downright confusing the whole process can be and wants to simplify the ordeal as much as possible. Aria is very in touch with the queer community and is committed to ensuring a safe and validating experience.
Aria is 26 and currently lives in Portland, Oregon with her girlfriend. She enjoys video games such as World of Warcraft, sitcom TV shows, and dogs in sweaters.
