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Guam

ID documents
Mixed
Care
Mixed
Shield lawA state law that protects patients and providers of gender-affirming care from investigations, subpoenas, or extradition attempts by states that ban that care.
No

In Guam you can change your name through a standard Superior Court petition.

More about Guam

Instead of a newspaper notice, the court's order is posted in public places for four weeks. Changing the sex marker is harder. A Guam birth certificate can be amended only with a sworn statement from the surgeon who performed gender-affirming surgery, and the Department of Revenue and Taxation has no written policy for driver's licenses. No Guam law bans gender-affirming care, but no law protects it either, and there are no known local informed-consent hormone clinics. The major national telehealth services do not currently serve Guam.

This state’s pages are drafts written from official sources and not yet checked by a person. What this means

Your documents, in order

Most people go in this order, because each office checks the one before it. On every document, updating your name and changing your gender marker are separate questions with separate answers.

  1. Legal name changeState court
    Name
    YesNo newspaper notice, court hearing required
  2. Social SecurityFederal, same in every state
    Name
    YesAfter your legal name change
    Gender marker
    NoCannot be changed right now
  3. Driver's license / state IDGuam DMV
    Name
    YesAfter your legal name change
    Gender marker
    UnclearNo written policy; see details
  4. US passportFederal, same in every state
    Name
    YesAfter your legal name change
    Gender marker
    NoCannot be changed right now
  5. Birth certificateOnly if born in Guam
    Name
    YesAfter your legal name change
    Gender marker
    LimitedM or F with proof of surgery

Born somewhere other than Guam? Your birth certificate follows the state where you were born. Choose your birth state

Gender-affirming care

Adults
Allowed
Under 18
Allowed
Gender-affirming care is legal in Guam for adults and minors.Find clinics, health centers, telehealth, and ways to pay

Statewide organizations

Sources for this page (5)

Sources

5 sources. Numbers in the text, like [1], point here.

  1. 10 GCA Chapter 3, Public Health and Social Services (includes § 3222, Correction and Amendment of Vital Records)Guam Compiler of Laws, Law. accessed
    “Upon receipt of a sworn statement from the physician performing the surgery certifying the sex of an individual has been changed by surgical procedure, and upon written request of an individual born in Guam, the sex of the individual shall be amended on the birth certificate.”
  2. Guam equality profileMovement Advancement Project, Organization. accessed
  3. Self-Help LitigantsJudiciary of Guam, Court. accessed
  4. Guam Bar AssociationGuam Bar Association, Organization. accessed
  5. Trans LifelineTrans Lifeline, Organization. accessed