A transgender woman running for an Ohio House seat has been disqualified for failing to disclose her former name on petitions circulated to voters, in violation of a seldom-enforced state law.
Local election officials informed Vanessa Joy, who hoped to run as a Democrat for Ohio House District 50, that she was not eligible to do so, despite having collected the signatures necessary to run.
Joy sought to run in a firmly Republican district covering Stark County, just south of Akron.
So we agree? I’m not so naïve to totally discount bad-faith on the part of “the system” but yeah, I disagree that anybody is exempt from revealing publicly who they were on the way to who they are today, both in life and candidacy.