It's interesting. I thought I'd share this.
Recently I had my name change a few days ago~ Very simple process in Oregon. I mean, I dressed nice in male clothing for the sole reason that I felt I'd be before a judge and wanted to be respectable. Nothing more than that. If I had understood that I'd have never seen the judge things would be much more relaxed and I would havedressed much differently.
Any others that have completed their name change have this happen? I noticed a young androgynous male early on. It didnt take long for me to connect dots, obviously! As the court room gallery filled up, I grabbed a spot and huddled by myself gripping a small binder which contained the entirety of most of my more important documents. My birth certificate being one of them, of course for the hearing. And my forms of documents for the name change process. A few minutes later the male I'd notice earlier came over and asked if he could sit down next to me. I didn't say a word, but smiled and nodded. normally, I'd have let ,my unregrettably talkative nature get the best of me, but I mostly sat there chewing one of the two legal ink pens I'd brought with me. Always prepared, mostly. I became more nervous because somewhere in the past two months despite clipped together by a hard back paper clip.. Somewhere along the way I had lost one of the forms. Add to that I was worried the judge my reject my name change because of how sloppy my signature has become (a more unreasonable concern)
Fortunately the clerk whom I did see was extremely kind, grabbed an extra form for me and gave me a few seconds to fill it out when I was called up. Probably is part of her job, but still I appreciate the kindness when she could have easily been allowed to take the bureaucratic approach. It was a legal preceeding which pushed me on edge.
Back to the guy~! I do know his old name but not his new. I have no doubt he might have figured things out early on as well especially when I scribbled Kelly on the provided envelope to receive the certified copies of our judgement. But I regret not introducing myself or getting a number, nothing that personal but I dont know many transpeople around here and would love to know more. In any other situation I probably wouldn't have shut up.
Any similar stories?
