Quote Originally Posted by Bulldog Psion View Post
I could always do it stepwise; the Rhiannon is the main thing I want to remove like a giant hairy wart anyway.

You fill out a petition and a couple of other forms, and hand them in (with a fee) to the Clerk of Courts. Then you publish a notice once a week for three weeks in a local newspaper. At the end of that time, the newspaper sends you an Affidavit of Publication. Then you take that, go to your name change hearing, hand that over, provide a reason for the change, and either get it changed or not.

If I pick a reasonable first name, I can't imagine it being refused, considering my current name is demonstrably the wrong gender and is, as noted, the name of a pop song to boot.
Yeah, I think it's wiser to try it in steps; first name first...

You know, very worst case, you could simply become "Ryan" without a need for a legal name change...