Post by SleepyCatten - Takahē

Takahē

2y

PSA

Steam Support do make exceptions and allow you to update your Steam account name (login) for trans/non-binary folks

I originally made a guide about it here 👇

https://www.reddit.com/r/transgamers/comments/pughme/steam_support_do_make_exceptions_and_allow_you_to/

I wanted to share the details here also

#Steam #Valve #gaming #gayming #trans #transgender #enby #NonBinary #genderqueer #genderfluid #agender #LGBTQ #queer

"We will also need your new preferred account name. To check availability of names, you can start a new account creation process. After verifying your email address, the next page allows you to check the availability of account names that you might want to use. Please choose an account name that is available and uses only the a-z, 0-9 or _ characters, excluding the hyphen (-). Important: Do not complete the account creation process, as that will render the chosen name unavailable.

Finally, log out of Steam anywhere that you have your credentials stored for quicker login. You can continue to use Steam normally - log in and out and play games as you'd like - just don't select the option to store your login credentials until we're done with this process.

Please reply here with your new chosen login name when you've logged out anywhere that you've stored your credentials."

Once you've done this, they'll confirm the Steam account name change and that you can log in as this now in all relevant places (e.g., Steam client; Steam app on your phone; Steam website on your browser/phone).

I hope this helps some of you 🤍

1. Go to this Steam Support page. In case this link ever stops working, it's "Home > Steam Community > I'm still having trouble with a Steam Community feature".
https://help.steampowered.com/en/wizard/HelpWithCommunityContactSupport

2. Click on "Contact Steam Support". Fill in your details and click on send. You should take your time to compose this, highlighting how you created your account before you realised you were transgender, how your current Steam account name makes you feel, and that changing this would very much help alleviate the feelings of dysphoria.

3. Steam Support will ask for information to confirm your identity as the account owner. They'll provide you with links to various identification methods (credit cards; PayPal; activation codes/CD keys; Steam Wallet codes; other options). Reply back with attachments of these (.jpg screenshots are fine).
https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/40A0-8B4B-B54B-C51A

4. Once Steam Support has verified that you are indeed the account owner, they will give you precise instructions on how to verify that a Steam account name is available (and how to avoid accidentally creating a new account).

Posted by u/SleepyCatten 1 year ago
Steam Support do make exceptions and allow you to update your Steam account name (login)

Hi all,

I'm sure that many of you play games on Steam. I'm also sure that most of you made your account before your egg cracked and possibly have a Steam account name that triggers some sense of dysphoria.

Officially, Valve doesn't allow players to amend their Steam account name. However, if you contact Steam Support, they will do this for you. I used this guide by another user and was successfully able to change my Steam account name (login) earlier this year (August 2021).
https://www.reddit.com/r/asktransgender/comments/8xk0zu/i_was_able_to_change_my_steam_login_name/

I thought it might be helpful for other trans gamers to confirm that the method still works and to advise the steps you will likely need to take to your request actioned. I'm only sharing this with trans gamers, rather than broadcasting it to Steam gamers on a large scale, at the request of Steam Support:

"Steam account names can't normally be changed. However, given your circumstances, we would like to help make the change for you.... feel free to share this information directly with others in the same situation but please refrain from broadcasting at any large scale."

Edited 2y ago

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