Upon looking into it further, the requirements include having to go to the sheriff’s office for fingerprinting, leave a petition to stand for ten days, go to the courthouse multiple times, and offer up documentation including a driver’s license or passport.
The latter part only makes it worse because I don’t have a driver’s license or passport. At the moment I have no information on if exceptions are made or if I’d have to go through the ordeal of getting one with my deadname and assigned sex on it.
My mother says that when she had a name change in her home state years ago, she barely had to do anything, and was appalled at what the process is like here and now.
This feels like too much. What did all of you have to do? Was it less intensive?
name change via the courts, updated social security, and then went to the licensing office to update my id
they’ll probably let you use your birth certificate with the court order of name change being a “linking document”, to get an id in most states (if you want a real-id compliant one) you’ll need that and then two pieces of mail proving you live at that address, the name on the bc doesn’t matter and in some states you can just tell them to change the sex without an affidavit
Thank you, this was helpful.