The Washington Gender Alliance believes that it is important that everyone has access to legal information concerning gender issues. To help achieve this we are presenting Washington law including state statutes, municipal codes, Washington court decisions, and federal laws on these issues. In most cases we include the exact text of statutes and codes. We also provide information on how you can find the full text of statutes and codes on the internet.

In addition to providing law, we have included some "self-help" information. We will include the text from court documents, letters, and other documents that individuals have successfully used to change their name or sex on legal documents in Washington state. This is what others have done. We are not offering or providing legal advice on how to do any legal action. This page is not created nor maintained by a lawyer. We provide legal materials and examples of what others have done so users can review sections of law related to gender issues and look up or locate the original laws and legal cases to use in their own research, provide them to lawyers working on their cases, or provide information to anyone working on their issues.

The law constantly changes. The law presented here may have been researched by us up to a year ago. Every reader should look up the current statute or code to see if any changes have been made since we posted sections to this site. Statutes are also interpreted by courts. Reference to any case discussing a particular section of a statute is necessary to have a full understanding of the meaning of the words in a statute.