Transgender woman is disqualified from Ohio House race for not using her former name - eviltoast
Vanessa Joy was ruled ineligible under a state law that requires prospective candidates to put their former names on their candidate petitions.
  • Kalash@feddit.ch
    91·
    1 year ago

    Would this ruling be applied the same way to married people who changed their name?

    You would know if you would read the article.

    • growsomethinggood ()@reddthat.com
      3·
      1 year ago

      I was being rhetorical- I know that they aren’t applying it to married people. But why? Wouldn’t the same reasoning hold, that you could use it to defraud? If not, why wouldn’t changing your name to transition not be in the same category of life event as marriage?