Trans candidate booted from ballot because she didn’t tell everyone her deadname

Vanessa Joy, a transgender woman who hoped to run for an Ohio House seat, has been disqualified from the race for not including her deadname on petitions circulated to potential voters. News 5 Cleveland reports that Joy had collected enough signatures to run as a Democrat for Ohio’s firmly Republican House District 50. But she recently learned that her name would not appear on the ballot due to an obscure state law requiring candidates to disclose any name changes that have taken place within the last five years. Candidates who...