EdgeBoston.com – by Kilian Melloy – EDGE Contributor
In everyday life, transgendered people face an array of difficult situations, from being addressed by the wrong honorific (“sir” instead of “ma’am,” or vice versa, for example) to being hustled out of the “wrong” restroom. But on Election Day, a new form of trouble crops up: voters’ old names, still on the rolls, not matching their new genders.
The New York Times posted a story on the not-so-unusual voting day hassle on Nov. 4, explaining that when a transgendered person begins to live as the gender with which he or she identifies, a name change is often part of the process–but that change of name is often not reflected on records available to polling place workers.