Ohio transgender candidate disqualified for only including legal name, not former name, on petitions
Ohio transgender candidate disqualified for only including legal name, not former name, on petitions
A transgender candidate for the Ohio House has been disqualified because she only circulated petitions with her legal name, instead of her former name — and it has put multiple other LGBTQ+ candidates in flux.
Ohio actually has a law that says if you legally change your name within the last 5 years, it has to be on the petition. In the article it mentions that there is no place for a previous name (dead name in this instance) on the petition, and the Secretary of State’s candidate guide doesn’t mention this requirement at all.
Apparently other trans candidates had their petitions accepted with no problem.
Jim crow laws meet jane mockingbird laws.
- Trans person gets denied election rights for a minor bureaucratic mistake on the form.
- Everyone: "this is so unfair."
- Some commenter: "it seems the law is just being strictly followed in this case, here's a link to the law."
- Everyone: "You're so transphobic, get cancelled"
- Another random commenter: "I now blocked them".
I mean defending blatant transphobia is inherently transphobic.
Yeah you can argue that the law is just being followed but the point is it's only being followed because the person is trans.