Earlier this month, Caitlyn Jenner filed the paperwork to be legally named Caitlyn Marie Jenner and legally declared a woman, and today, a judge granted her request.
While in Santa Monica, Calif., Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Gerald Rosenberg approved her petition to legally change Jenner's name and gender, according to The Associated Press. Caitlyn, who was born William Bruce Jenner, did not attend the hearing. Now that the petition has been approved, Jenner has access to government documents like a driver's license and Social Security card under her new identity, which she has publicly been identified as for a few months now since her Vanity Fair cover.
The 65-year-old "I Am Cait" star wanted to make the legal change in order to "better match her identity," according to Entertainment Tonight. She was required to show the court the documents of her clinically approved treatments in order to do this.
Jenner wanted this information to be kept as private as possible, so she asked that a redacted version of her petition, which would not include her personal information, be available to the public, according to The Wrap. She felt this was the best option as she had been receiving threats since she decided to transition.
"Although public support for my transition has been overwhelmingly supportive," the transgender star said in a court filing, "I am also receiving unwelcome negative attention from private citizens, including threats of bodily harm."
Caitlyn has known she wanted to make this transition for several years now, but did not come out to the public until her Diane Sawyer interview in April. When Sawyer asked Jenner she was a woman, she simply replied, "Yes, for all intents and purposes, I am a woman."
