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Yeah, your system is really strange with the whole un/enrolled deed poll and GRC. In my case it’s pretty obvious what the right answer is because I can’t change my name without changing my legal sex first.
I don’t really understand the name change part. Are people not normally allowed to change their names? In the US you can just go do that whenever, for whatever reason. As long as it’s not something ridiculous, and you pass a background check, it’s just a bit of paperwork and a small fee.
In Austria names are bound to your sex. I could change it to a unisex but not a female one, at least yet. And if I did that, I would also have to pay around 500€, so not a small fee.
But when I change my legal sex to female, I can then say that my old name doesn’t fit my sex and thus have a proper reason to change it and with that I have to only pay a minimal fee.
All of this stuff is not based on any laws but court rulings, which is why this process is so convoluted.
Some countries have laws regarding the gender of names, so you can’t change your name from a ‘male’ name to a ‘female’ name or vice versa. Some names are seen as unisex though so you can freely use those regardless of your gender.