Lots of other people change their names. Trans issues were hardly on the radar when this law was passed.
And marriage records are a lot easier to track, and don’t involve changing first names. When someone changes their name for marriage, you can probably find out their maiden name fairly easily.
All legal name changes should be easy to track since it requires updating social security, insurance, driver’s licenses, and pretty much everything else.
So it just ends up being disproportionately targeted at transgender people then.
Sorry, I assumed it was like the TSA PreCheck which requires every name change a woman has gone through during their entire life.
Lots of other people change their names. Trans issues were hardly on the radar when this law was passed.
And marriage records are a lot easier to track, and don’t involve changing first names. When someone changes their name for marriage, you can probably find out their maiden name fairly easily.
All legal name changes should be easy to track since it requires updating social security, insurance, driver’s licenses, and pretty much everything else.
People can have name changes sealed.