Transgender woman is disqualified from Ohio House race for not using her former name
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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Ignorance of the law doesn't give you freedom from the law. Too bad, so sad. Try again next time.
FontMasterFlex, you're clearly missing the point. It's an unjust law that exists to keep people like her out of office. It's another Christian right wing - sorry, I mean government - tactic to keep the other team from being allowed to play.
It's the same as the laws that were passed requiring abortion clinics to have 18 ft wide hallways. "We're not banning abortion! We're just concerned about the rights of all the 18'+ women seeking treatment!"
Fuck unjust laws that keep people from getting into positions to overturn unjust laws.
right. this law was put into place specifically to ban trans people from serving. sure. did you read the fucking article? if the person running would have followed the fucking rules, they would be allowed. ignorance of the law does not excuse not following the law. nothing here is specifically preventing trans people from doing anything, just people that can't follow the rules in place. the world doesn't revolve around a group of people that make up less than 1% of the population, stop trying to make everything about trans folk.
it was probably not put there against trans people in the first place, I'll give you that.
but it definitely stops trans people from getting the work without renouncing to their own identity. it's an unjust law against trans people, there's no discussion of that.
it's not like trans people aren't aware of the law and that's why they don't abide, it's because they don't want to give up their dignity by using their dead name.
Get a court order changing your name. Done and done.
The rules that weren't listed anywhere? The rules that even experts who were consulted were unaware of? The rules that there wasn't even a place on the form to be able to follow?
You mean those rules?