Trans Resource Navigator

Local help in Charleston

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The Charleston area has a Planned Parenthood health center offering gender-affirming care, an HIV and PrEP provider with LGBTQ+ inclusive care, and two long-standing LGBTQ organizations. Name change petitions are filed with the family court in the county where you live; the Columbia-based Harriet Hancock Center's legal program helps residents statewide.

Covers: Charleston, Berkeley, and Dorchester counties (the Lowcountry tri-county area)

Draft list from organizations' own websites, 2026-09-24. Call ahead: hours and services change.

On this page
  1. Where to file
  2. Name change and ID help
  3. Hormones and primary care
  4. Sexual health, PrEP, and testing
  5. Mental health and support
  6. Sources

Where to file a name change

Court
Family court of your county (Charleston, Berkeley, or Dorchester)[1]
Filing fee
$150

Can’t afford the fee? How fee waivers work in South Carolina

The $150 name change filing fee is the same statewide. Check your county clerk of court for the filing address.

Name change and ID help 1

Hormones and primary care 1

Sexual health, PrEP, and testing 1

  • Palmetto Community Care[3]

    In-office and telehealth PrEP, PEP, doxyPEP, at-home HIV test kits, HIV care, and case management with LGBTQ+ inclusive and gender-affirming care.

    • Cost varies
    • Telehealth
    843-747-22735064 Rivers Avenue, North Charleston, SC 29406

Mental health and support 3

Sources

7 sources. Numbers in the text, like [1], point here.Show all
  1. Family Court Filing FeesSouth Carolina Judicial Branch, Court. accessed
    “Name Change and Correction of Birth Record Actions: $150”
  2. Charleston Health CenterPlanned Parenthood South Atlantic, Organization. accessed
  3. Palmetto Community CarePalmetto Community Care, Organization. accessed
  4. Alliance for Full AcceptanceAFFA, Organization. accessed
  5. We Are FamilyWe Are Family, Organization. accessed
  6. Trans LifelineOrganization. accessed