Gender affirmation

You can change or correct your name, date of birth or title, nominate pronouns, affirm your gender and/or share your preferred first name(s) with Monash University by submitting our online form.

Change your personal details

If you’re a past student or an alumni, you'll need to:

1. Complete the Change Your Personal Details (Past Students and Alumni) form.
2. Submit an enquiry through MoVA with the form attached.

To find out what documents you’ll need to provide, check our page on changing your personal details. You'll also find information about which systems will display your preferred first name, and how your gender information is recorded on personal details: what we'll update.

Replacing your M-Pass

If you’ve changed your legal name because you’re affirming your gender (or you’d just like to change the photo on your M-Pass), you can get a replacement M-Pass for free – all you need to do is submit an enquiry through MoVA.

Government organisations

You should also make sure you let Centrelink know of any changes to your name and/or gender to avoid any problems (e.g. Centrelink payments may be interrupted if University and Centrelink records don’t match) – it’s important to let Centrelink know as soon as possible if your personal details change.

If you’ve changed your legal name, you’ll also need to make sure your details are updated with the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) and in the Unique Student Identifier (USI) registry system.

Take a look at personal details: what you'll need to update for more information.

Legally changing your name and/or gender

Updating your legal name and/or gender in the University’s records is not the same as legally changing your name and/or gender. You can contact the Registry of Birth, Deaths and Marriages Victoria to find out how to:

• change your name, or
• change your gender.

If you can’t change your name legally, you’re still in process of changing it or you’d just like to use a different name, you can share a preferred first name(s) that will be used at Monash.

Updating and sharing your pronouns

Sharing pronouns is a personal choice and Monash supports you in deciding if, when, or how you share them. To learn more about how to nominate, update or check your pronouns recorded with the University, visit the updating and sharing your pronouns page.

Changing your title

You can change your title at any time without having to provide supporting documents – you’ll just need to submit the online form (above). You can select the title Mx to identify as outside of a binary gender.