Anyone else just... never go through the legal name change process? Its been like 7 years since I came out and I still haven't bothered with it.
Its hard to justify the cost mostly. It's also mildly amusing watching people stumble a bit if I have to show my ID for something. But getting called my deadname at the bank is starting to get tiresome 🙃
I need to do my birth certificate before Missouri makes it illegal.
Yep! It's been five years so far of hrt for me and I still haven't legally changed my name. Most likely that's due to having felt like names were all fake for so much of my life. Yet why was I so jealous of my friend who just picked her own new name in grade school and got away with it? My state in the us still requires running a newspaper ad for a while which isn't something I'm looking forward to and the state I was born in requires gcs to change birth certificates. There's a fair possibility that I'm intersex as well though which would allow me to have my birth certificate changed to reflect that with only a test of some sort. I'm definitely going to get it all done before the end of the next presidential election here since who knows what horrors might happen if the republicans won in this climate.
What's the newspaper ad for? Is it publicly announcing that your trans or something?
That sums it right up I think but supposedly its for the worlds creditors who all read your local newspaper to watch for us changing our names just to get away from debts.
I got mine waived as my mom already stalked my sister around town and posted about militant lesbians when she started dating women.
I think you can extend that to alt right terrorists.
It's a lot of work, but having a matching ID is very convenient. And if someone asks for my deadname, I can tell them "I don't know anyone by that name"
Scam callers with data from years ago too call and I'm like, nope, sorry, wrong person. Not to mention Voice Training makes them realise wrong gender too. 😅