Municipality of Moerdijk: changing your gender on official documents

Change based on adoption

Data from before the adoption can be removed at the written request of the adoptive parents of a child under the age of 16 or an adopted child aged 16 or older.
The data that can be changed or deleted concerns data about:

1. the name
2. the mother or the father
3. the nationality lost at the time of adoption
4. the municipality of registration and the address in that municipality as well as about the stay in the Netherlands and the departure from the Netherlands.

Change due to sex change

In addition, at the written request of the person concerned, the municipal council can delete or change the data as a result of a change of gender. No actual 'conversion' of the body needs to have taken place for this. The condition is that a statement is submitted from an expert appointed by the BRIC.

The data that can be changed or deleted are:

1. information about the name
2. gender data
3. data on the use of the surname of the spouse, the former spouse, the registered partner or the former registered partner

Written

You can draw up a written request and send it to the municipality. This can be sent to the following address:

Municipality of Moerdijk
PO Box 4
4760 AA Zevenbergen

You can also post your request in the mailbox at the town hall, entrance Pastoor van Kessellaan 15 or hand it in at the counters.

by phone

If you would like more information about this product/service, please contact us by telephone. To do this, call the six-digit telephone number 14 0168.

If you are calling from abroad, please use the number +31168373600.

Take

1. Passport, identity card or driver's license as proof of identity.
2. Proof of correct data.

Important information for after the change in registration

Once your birth certificate has been changed, the municipality will update the Basisregistratie Personen – BRP (Personal Records Database). Public organisations whose systems are connected to the BRP will receive the changes automatically. Those organisations include:

• the Belastingdienst (Tax and Customs Administration);
• pension funds;
• the Rijksdienst voor het wegverkeer – RDW (Netherlands Vehicle Authority);
• the Sociale Verzekeringsbank – SVB (social insurance bank);
• health insurers.

You must inform other organisations yourself that the registration of your gender and, if applicable, your first names have changed.

Amendment of the registration your gender on your birth certificate is free of charge. However, you do have to pay for a new identity document (passport, identity card, driving licence).

It takes approximately 1 week for the details on your birth certificate to be changed.