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More chuckles from the county courthouse
The "name game" always makes entertaining reading for me.
By this, I refer to the legal name-change notices in The Jeffersonian, our county's newspaper of legal record. Most of the change of name docket is done pro se, and the reasons that petitioners give for requesting a change are often funnier than the name changes themselves, some of which are downright hilarious.
Since the last installment of this entry, I've seen a number of petitions that have been filed by transgendered people in the process of completing the change to their desired gender. I don't think it fair to make fun of most of these, as I find the entire matter of "gender reassignment" just imponderable. Suffice it to say, that it always surprises me to see someone apply for a name change on these grounds, where the initials of the new name do not match those of the old. Don't these folks own a single monogrammed item?
Still, there was this one:
Trevean Raynard Lee wants a name change to Treashay Renee Lee on the following grounds: "I am a transexually [sic] live[sic] as a female but still living by male and I don't feel since I'm living female why still be call Trevean."
Aside from the fact that Trevean/Treashay must have been too excited to proofread the application, I have to ask how many people would know that "Trevean" is a man's name, while "Treashay" is that of a woman?
Aside from that, I have collected these gems:
Olivine Hinds Angela Alain Tchuigoua Tchapda has applied for a name change to Olivine Chaps Angela Alain Chaps. Grounds given for the request are "I do not like the meaning of my name." God knows, if ever something needed further explanation, this does.
Felicia Nwakaego Ezimora applied for a name change to Nwakaego Felicia Ezimora. The rational: "Petitioner's recent application to the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates to be allowe to take the examination that will qualify her to practice medicine in the United states was denied because she used the [desired name] in the application and her medical degree and manuscript [sic] from her school in Russia shows the petitioner's name as Ezimora Felicia Nwakaego [which, you will note, is the third permutation of these names]. The Board has advised the petitioner that she will only be cleared to take the examination if the court issues an order that both [sic] names refer to one person, the Petitioner.
I just hope she gets things sorted out before writing any prescriptions or performing surgery.