#roleplaying a judge and ensuring trans people can get their money

[starcrossed-sky]

That specific check might be expired now, but you CAN cash it! Basically, what you do it you endorse the check to your legal name from the name it's under (here's instructions on that for general purposes), which involves writing really small and neatly in the signature space of the check.

Ideally you then deposit the check with one of those banking apps that has you take a picture of the check front and back without interacting with another human being. But as long as your bank accepts third party checks (which most do? the main concern is with scams but like you aren't scamming yourself you know where that check came from) you should be able to cash it still. I have done this myself because my mom's sister once sent me christmas money to the display name I have on Facebook (which is not my legal name).

Shoutout to my trans friendly but extremely autistic grandmother who refuses to use They/Them pronouns unless someone is plural because she's dead set against "they's" as a possessive term and "they was" as a past tense indicator of an action because it reminds her of the accent of a long dead and deeply beloathed coworker who picked up most of his accent from pittsburg. Notably she's fine with They/Them as long as someone is plural, and is entirely willing to refer to someone by name or with another term- IE "that person/creature/girlthing/nonbinary gremlin" upon request.

She's something else. Wrote out a check to my new name for my last birthday because "I don't know your clothing preferences or sizes, and if someone bought me an ill fitting blouse that I loved the look of, or a perfectly fit blouse I despise, I'd be quite put out, and you're set on everything else I know you like."

Notably she wrote it out to my new name, and even months later, I haven't even updated my name with the bank yet, as the speed of bureaucracy is abysmal, so I can't even cash it.

Love you grandma! :3