Gender Recognition and Lived Name Policy

GRLN at Berkeley

Gender Recognition and Lived Name Policy (GRLN)

Oriel Frankie Ashcroft

Name and Gender Change Workshops

Flyer for Trans & GNC Folks ID update clinics by East Bay Community Law Center, listing spring dates and contact info.

Spring 2026 Name and Gender Change Workshops

A collaborative clinic between Berkeley Law and the East Bay Community Law Center

The dates for our clinic this year are: January 20, 2026, February 17, 2026, March 17, 2026, and April 21, 2026. Each of our clinics span from 6-9:30pm. Clients are met either in-person (at the Berkeley Law building), over Zoom, or over the phone.

For more information or to register, individuals are encouraged to contact NGCW at (510) 548-4040 ext. 387 or by email at ngcw@ebclc.org.

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Gender Recognition & Lived Name Policy

The Gender Recognition and Lived Name (GRLN) policy ensures that all students, employees, alumni, and affiliates are identified by their accurate gender identity and lived name on university-issued identification documents and in UC’s information systems by providing guidance on the collection and reporting of gender identity, lived name and sexual orientation. The Gender Recognition and Lived Name policy requires UC to provide:

At least three equally recognized gender options in university information systems — woman, man and nonbinary.
Any individual entering into an academic or professional relationship with the UC may be permitted to indicate a lived name to be used in the UC system in all settings and situations that do not require a person’s legal name.
An efficient process for current students, faculty and staff, and for UC alumni and affiliates, to retroactively amend their gender designations and lived name on university-issued documents, including eligible academic documents, and in information systems.

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