• Emily (she/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zoneM
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    24 days ago

    I live in Australia, so YMMV, but for me, the things I needed to update were:

    • Government/their services and programs, local and federal
    • Medical things (insurance, doctors, etc)
    • Banks/Financial Institutions (I don’t know how a 401k works, but that probably is included)
    • Insurance
    • Car registration
    • Identity documents
    • Wills, if you have one
    • Company registrations, if you have one

    Beyond that legal obligation, there is no one you have to tell if you don’t feel comfortable. I took the opportunity of legally changing my name to finally come out in the rest of my life (work and uni), but you don’t have to.