ITT screeching at hating women.
Dumb or not, your state id serves as the defacto federal id in lieu of a passport and as such is commonly used for id theft. Name changes are a common way to accomplish this.
God forbid we require a paper trail and people actually make copies of their name change documents as you are told to do when first changing the name.
I get how this could be a problem for an older women but this is easily avoidable and doesn’t have to be a thing. You also don’t have to change your name 🤷.