Changing the registration of gender on official documents
Do you want to change the registration of your gender designation on your official documents? If so, it must first be changed on your birth certificate. For people born in the Netherlands, this is done in the municipality where you were born. If you want a gender-neutral birth certificate, you can send a request to the district court. After the registration of your gender has been changed on your birth certificate, you can apply for a new passport, identity card or driving licence.
The Government of the Netherlands uses 2 genders: ‘man’ (male) and ‘vrouw’ (female). For people born in the Netherlands, changing the registration of your gender from ‘man’ to ‘vrouw’, and vice versa, can be done at the municipality where you were born.
It is not possible to choose gender-neutral registration at the municipality. Do you want to change the registration of your gender to gender-neutral? If so, send a request to the district court.
There are rules for changing the registration of your gender on official documents.
Medical certificate needed to change the registration of your gender
To change the registration of your gender, you will need a certificate from an expert. This may be a doctor, psychologist or psychotherapist. The certificate is a statement containing the designation ‘deskundige transgenders’ (transgender expert) (in Dutch). You do not need to have undergone an operation, hormone treatment or sterilisation.
Change to registration of gender designation for children under 16 years of age
It is not currently possible for children under 16 years of age to have the registration of their gender changed.
Gender registration change and citizenship
To change the registration of your gender in the Netherlands, you must:
- hold Dutch citizenship; or
- have resided in the Netherlands for at least 1 year, if you do not hold Dutch citizenship.
Do you want to have the registration of your gender changed by the municipality in the Netherlands where you were born? If so, you can also specify your new forename(s). The municipality where you were born will then put those names on your birth certificate.
You can have the registration of your gender changed in the municipality where you were born. That municipality will amend your birth certificate. The municipality where you were born will notify the municipality where you live of the change. The municipality where you live will then amend your data in the Personal Records Database (Basisregistratie Personen – BRP).
Were you born outside the Netherlands? If so, you can submit a request to the municipality of Den Haag (The Hague).
Applying for a new passport, identity card or driving licence after changing the registration of your gender
Is your new gender registration entered in the BRP? If so, you can apply for a new passport, identity card or driving licence. You can do this with the municipality where you live. Old documents are no longer valid, and you must return them.
This is how it works for you
Here is some information from your municipality.
Change to the basic registration of persons (BRP)
Please note: you can only change the registration of your gender if you live in the Netherlands and are registered with a municipality.
Do you want to change your personal data in the population register? That is possible. For example, at your request, the municipality can delete historical data about this after adoption or gender change. In other cases, such as registration or deregistration, name change and the like, the personal data in the BRP are automatically changed.
Change based on adoption
Data from before the adoption can be removed at the written request of the adoptive parents of a child under the age of 16 or an adopted child aged 16 or older.
The data that can be changed or deleted concerns data about:
- the name
- the mother or the father
- the nationality lost at the time of adoption
- the municipality of registration and the address in that municipality as well as about the stay in the Netherlands and the departure from the Netherlands.
Change due to sex change
In addition, at the written request of the person concerned, the municipal council can delete or change the data as a result of a change of gender. No actual 'conversion' of the body needs to have taken place for this. The condition is that a statement is submitted from an expert appointed by the BRIC.
The data that can be changed or deleted are:
- information about the name
- gender data
- data on the use of the surname of the spouse, the former spouse, the registered partner or the former registered partner
Written
You can draw up a written request and send it to the municipality. This can be sent to the following address:
Municipality of Moerdijk
PO Box 4
4760 AA Zevenbergen
You can also post your request in the mailbox at the town hall, entrance Pastoor van Kessellaan 15 or hand it in at the counters.
by phone
If you would like more information about this product/service, please contact us by telephone. To do this, call the six-digit telephone number 14 0168.
If you are calling from abroad, please use the number +31168373600.
Take
- Passport, identity card or driver's license as proof of identity.
- Proof of correct data.
Important information for after the change in registration
Once your birth certificate has been changed, the municipality will update the Basisregistratie Personen – BRP (Personal Records Database). Public organisations whose systems are connected to the BRP will receive the changes automatically. Those organisations include:
- the Belastingdienst (Tax and Customs Administration);
- pension funds;
- the Rijksdienst voor het wegverkeer – RDW (Netherlands Vehicle Authority);
- the Sociale Verzekeringsbank – SVB (social insurance bank);
- health insurers.
You must inform other organisations yourself that the registration of your gender and, if applicable, your first names have changed.
Amendment of the registration your gender on your birth certificate is free of charge. However, you do have to pay for a new identity document (passport, identity card, driving licence).
It takes approximately 1 week for the details on your birth certificate to be changed.
Questions about this topic?
Contact the Municipality of Moerdijk
Visiting address
Pastoor van Kessellaan 15
4761BJ Zevenbergen
| Monday | 08.30 - 17.00 |
| Tuesday | 08.30 - 17.00 |
| Wednesday | 08.30 - 17.00 |
| Thursday | 08.30 - 17.00 18.00 - 20.00 |
| Friday | 08.30 - 12.00 |
| Saturday | Closed |
| Sunday | Closed |