The proposed change (which no one has posted a link to, so far) is in CA and so is the original poster. From what I've read, CA notaries aren't allowed to connect the dots, so if a person who took title as John Doe, a single man, wants to sign now as Jane Doe, a single woman, the CA notary needs acceptable identification in the name Jane Doe.
I don't think any state has any clear regulation saying if the gender on the ID card (if that's how you identify the signer) has to agree with the gender in the certificate. In fact, CA is one of the few states that requires the gender to appear in the certificate at all. Of course, any notary in any state should refuse to notarize if the gender information in the document and on the ID makes the notary doubt that the right person has appeared to sign the document.
In my case, I could just write a certificate that avoids mentioning gender, such as
On this 18th day of December 2017 personally appeared Jane Doe, known to me to be the person who execute the foregoing instrument, and thereupon duly acknowledged to me that the same Jane Doe executed the instrument as the same Jane Doe's free act and deed. |
