Transpeople can change many documents. The government and it's civil servants still will not allow changes to the Birth Certificate as of September 2002. Passports can be changed but it still requires a birth certificate for a first. A Driving Licence can be obtained with a passport but if one doesn't own a passport a birth certificate is still needed. Some educational bodies still will not change degree or other educational certificates. Many will so this appears to be discrimination by a few. Some employers refuse to change identity documents which could be considered to be sex-discrimination. A major problem in 2002 is the Criminal Records checks carried out in many types of employment. Employees must disclose their current name and any previous names which means that transpeople are indirectly discriminated against by having to reveal details about their private lives.
On Birth Certificates, you can write to your MP and ask them to support a change to the law for transpeople. You can also write to the Office of National Statistics which administrates the issuing of birth (and other) certificates. With driving licences and Passports, you can ask the agencies and your MP's to have a single, named, national person for changes to (or issuing of) passports and driving licences until the law on birth certificates makes this irrelevant. Examination bodies can all be written to with requests for changes of name. You may need to reveal your trans history in any initial letter because they don't all reveal if they have any policies in the first instant. If they refuse to allow changes, you could remind them of European Court of Justice decisions on employment and the fact that certificates are needed for certain types of employment.
It is important that transpeople do not have their human rights breached by allowing an employer to see their past status. This is more important when somebody has transitioned long ago and has been accepted, or for new employment. MP's need to be written to or visited at their surgery's or in parliament. They need to ask the government to create a central body that an individual can write to for a certificate confirming their criminal history. Transpeople cannot be exempt from criminal checks on their previous life but there is no reason for employers to know about non-criminal information. If necessary see a solicitor and take action under the human rights act to protect your privacy. European law gives you a right to a private life.
Campaign on any of the above issues or other issues you may think of related to documentation or medicine. Mention TransActive-UK and please let us know how you get on.