Quote Originally Posted by Heliomance View Post
Really? Wow, that sucks. In England you can change your name by deed poll for any reason or none. Don't have to be transitioning, don't have to be trans - if you want a different legal name you can fill in the paperwork, get it witnessed, send it in and you're done.

Apparently the single most common name change is people changing their middle name to Danger.
In America, too. The name-change whenever thing, not the Danger thing.

Although I wouldn't be surprised if that also held true here .