We need a national law on that. It should be that easy for everyone. It makes me pretty angry that it’s not. Like, WTF business is it of ANYONE else?
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Various wine country areas may be the exception: Napa, Sonoma, the Willamette Valley, Walla Walla (but that’s notably an island in Eastern Washington) all come to mind.
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I transitioned in 1996 in a conservative place (which is actually irrelevant because no laws existed anywhere for this at the time). I had to do it via fraud, basically. The DMV system in the area had just been privatized, so I found a newly private company kiosk where the people were new and didn’t really know what they were doing. I convinced them the M on my license was a simple typo, and they changed it. Then I changed my passport by filling out the paperwork for renewal and filling in F for gender. Whoever in the back room processed my application didn’t compare the old one and simply printed it with the new value.
A decade later it became possible to change my birth certificate and do all this legally, but some light fraud got it done the first time.
At the risk of going full Yorkshiremen, kids today have it so easy. 
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Yes, but I believe the map is about relative “legislative risk” vs “personal risk”. No state would be a solid color for personal risk due to how attitudes shift in different areas.
But in WA and OR the people in the west largely control the state legislature, so hopefully you won’t have to endure any legal BS, like with what Oklahoma is trying to do with forcing anyone under 26 to de-transition. 
Stay safe.
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I’ve not been fortunate enough to see all of those areas. Perhaps one day.
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New Hampshirite … “live free or die”.
Most/all of those risky states are Republican led. The so-called party of “small government”, “personal freedoms”, and “anti regulation”.
Weird how these places are quick to use the levers of government to trample on individual rights and liberties. Almost as if they don’t actually care about these things.
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Yeah, cause it’s always been bullshit. They want to use state power to coerce people into living a particular way. They just want to privilege some people over others.
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The map has disturbing echoes of the infamous Green Book written for POC travelers.
Also:
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Good to see my personal map of “states I’d live in/states I’d never live in” matches up almost identically to the blue/red in this map. Also, my choice to live in CO continues to be validated.
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Yes, yes… those of us living in places where there is an actual a political fight to be had to save this stupid country are the real idiots!
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My satisfaction at having chosen a place to live that happened to have aligned with my personal beliefs was not meant to denigrate anyone who either did not or could not make a similar decision.
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