Name Change Law Causes Transgender Candidate to Be Removed From Ballot in Ohio

The law, enacted in 1995, effectively requires all transgender candidates to list their deadname in their petitions.

In Ohio, a transgender candidate was removed from the ballot for not including her previous name under a seldom-used, decades-old law. Vanessa Joy was informed on Wednesday that, despite collecting enough signatures to run, her petition to run for office was denied by the Stark County Election Commission according to news first reported by local journalist Morgan Trau of Ohio. The law requires any...

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