Transgender woman is disqualified from Ohio House race for not using her former name

Vanessa Joy was ruled ineligible under a state law that requires prospective candidates to put their former names on their candidate petitions.

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Let's call this what it is: erecting a humiliating barrier in front of someone to prevent them from running for office
- That may be the effect but when was the law enacted? Unless it was the last 3 years I can't imagine this was the intent, nobody made trans issues a big deal until the right was truly sure they couldn't punch down on gay people anymore.
- I was so confused for a moment, until I noticed the "race" in the title was referring to an election.

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