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?