June 9, 2015
Texas Residents Wonder: Should Bruce Jenner Lane Be Changed to Caitlyn
Jason St. Amand READ TIME: 2 MIN.
Some residents in Texas are wondering if the name of the street they live on should change in the wake of Bruce Jenner's new identity, Caitlyn Jenner, local Texas ABC affiliate KVUE reports.
Homeowners in Texas' South Austin and El Paso are pondering if their street name Bruce Jenner Lane should be changed to Caitlyn Jenner Lane.
On June 1, Vanity Fair magazine revealed Jenner's new identity in the form of their July cover photo. Jenner confirmed she was a trans woman in April in a "20/20" interview with Diane Sawyer.
Residents in South Austin's Olympian Heights neighborhood told KVUE that people have been stopping by the street sign to take photos and ask neighbors if they will change the street name to Caitlyn Jenner Lane.
"We just hope that someone is smart enough to realize all the trouble it's going to cause for regular people if you change the name," resident Ray Briggs told KVUE. "Should we put both [names] on there? Tape one underneath it?" Briggs continued. "I thought about doing that myself."
Another resident spoke with ABC News and said they don't want to change the name -- not because they don't agree with Jenner -- but due to the amount of paperwork.
"I don't care what [she] did with [her] life because that's [her] personal choice. But I'd rather not change the street name. That's just a lot of paperwork, you know?" they said.
The Hollywood Reporter reports that Austin's city website says that at least 50 percent of the street's residents must sign a formal petition in order to have the city approve a new name, as well as get city council approval.
"If the city council and residents of our community want to change the name of Bruce Jenner Lane to Caitlyn Jenner Lane, the board has no issue," Olympian Heights' board members told ABC News in a statement. "However, it is something as a board, we are not actively pursuing."