A bill sent to Gov. J.B. Pritzker would lift restrictions on Illinois residents who can't change their names because of past crimes.
A judge would make the final decision on a name change with input from a local prosecutor under a bill that has cleared the General Assembly.
A transgender woman, Reyna Ortiz, said she has been unable to formally change her name to match her identity because of a past identity-fraud conviction. Her driver's license still has a man's name. "There's so many trans women walking around with IDs that don't match their gender identity and that opens us up to various degrees of systemic discrimination," Ortiz said.
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