Transgender candidates in Ohio could be disqualified from ballot for failing to disclose 'deadnames'

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[–]LordoftheFliesAmeri-kin 2.0. Pronouns: MegaWhite/SuperStraight/UltraPatriarchy 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

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To my considerable surprise, I'm actually with the TRAs on this one. The law does exist, for good reason, and should be followed. BUT, if they were not properly informed of the law's existence in the course of registering themselves as candidates, then they shouldn't be punished by being denied their status as valid candidates; the burden (IMO) is on the government to provide the necessary (and up-to-date) material that they require.

(If, on the other hand, they fail to disclose in accordance with the law's requirements after being informed of it, then yes, they absolutely should be denied their candidate status.)

Aside from that, though, it's the same old "we're being genocided" hyperbole and faux suffering that I've come to expect out these people.

[–]LyingSpirit472 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Honestly, I think that the law doesn't even work and the TRA's shouldn't even have to give their deadname, on the grounds that there have been cisgendered candidates who ran under their new name and were completely allowed to run without using their birth name. When he won in Minnesota, James Janos was not required to run under his birth name, he could run for governor using his professional name of Jesse Ventura and no one questioned it. If a cisgendered actor/pro wrestler is allowed to use his name he uses professionally instead of his birth name when in the political field, a trans person can use their new name too.

Hell, if the people who'd go to Fox News for news think "...but it's hurting trans people so it's a good thing", this won't end well for them- IIRC, "Donald Trump" is not his birth name and by this law, it'd take him off the Ohio ballot as a result.

[–]LordoftheFliesAmeri-kin 2.0. Pronouns: MegaWhite/SuperStraight/UltraPatriarchy 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

If I recall correctly, the law in question does have a time limit (5 years or so?) after which it no longer applies, and it's just that the affected candidates apparently all fall in that window. Donald Trump wouldn't.

About the law as a whole, I firmly believe that the candidates not being made properly aware of it is the usual government demonstration of ineptitude. However, the fact that it's being brought up now, with regards to the troons running for office, is shady as shit. I don't always succeed at it, but I try to acknowledge the fuckery even when it comes from the side I'm nominally in favor of, and I'm absolutely certain that this is fuckery.