"For us the bills for expedited background checks, filing fees, publicizing her name change, and an expedited passport..."

Changed my daughter's first name at 15 because she really never liked it and had been harassed by stupid people about its "unisex" status. Because she was older than 13, she also had to go through filing fees, fingerprinting, background checks with the CBI and FBI (not a big deal, just took weeks), and publication, new birth cert and SSN. Publication wasn't a big deal, just a small notification that ran in some obscure local paper for a week or two. Do people actually read those kinds of notices? Of course, I had to inform my insurance company and a host of other notifications. Yeah, it's a nuisance more than financial burden, but why is your daughter more special than mine or more special than anybody else who has to go through it? And what does being transgender have to do with it? Please get over yourselves. This is life.

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