For the second time a pair of republican legislators proposed provisions that could force Trans candidates to disclose their former legal names in order to apply for a public office.
Conservative Republican Rep. Rodney Creech (R-West Alexandria) AND Angie King (R-Clina) -who both identify themselves as Christians-for the first time they proposed legislation of last spring, after everyone stood in the face of transgender opponents in common elections in 2024.
After moving home, the language of the Act was introduced to the Bill 71 Senate, where he died in December at the last moments of 135 of the General Assembly.
All Ohioanie is already Required to mention any legal changes in names This took place in their petitions for the candidacy in the last five years, but Ohio House Bill (HB) 196 would add to candidates to take into account the elderly legal names in his petitions about candidacy – additionally codifying the requirement.
The Act would also allow voters to challenge the candidate’s legitimacy registered under any political party to assume that they will not publicly mention their previous rights names. The current law only allows the candidate’s registered voters to challenge the unit’s candidate.
Since the Code changed in Ohio already includes release for married women, HB 196 can be used to attack transgender candidates who changed their names outside of marriage – questioning their ID on the basis of suspected existence of historic legal names and potentially leaving them as transmission.
Troop candidates
Transgender ohio house candidate Arienne Childrey was cleaned Against King last year after questioning the ID of her candidacy based on the suspicion of the former legal name. Childrey lost Race for representing District 84But later he was appointed to the City Council of St. Marys, making her the first suit of the transgender city council in the state.
Creech opponent, Bobbie Arnold, who is also transgery, has been cleaned to appear voting through Montgomery County Elections CouncilBut he lost the race with Creech.
Third transgender candidate – 42-year-old Vanessa Joy – She was disqualified as a result of the launch in the universal elections in 2024. After she did not mention her former legal name, often called “Deadname”, under her petition for candidates.
The effort of Ohio House Democrats to release candidates – including transgender candidates – who, according to the law, changed their name, did not seem from the interrogations of the committee.
“Political acrobatics”
“Last year, they pushed this bill, because my opponent was bad that her own chairman of the Republican Ferris party did not remove me from voting,” said Childrey about HB 196. “Now introducing him again into an even more pointless attempt at political return.”
Despite Bill’s consequences for transgender candidates, Childrey said that she had to rule out another representation of the 84th district.
“Before I receive campaign documents, my legal change of name will go much beyond a five -year sign,” said Buckeye Flame Buckeye. “This account does not even apply. But Ohio GOP develops a policy of revenge, wasting taxpayers’ dollars on empty attacks, instead of dealing with real problems that Ohioan faced.”
“Instead of wasting time on political acrobatics, King and Ohio GOP can focus on real issues – such as fully financing our public schools,” added Childrey.
Buckeye Flame contacted Rep. Kingiem via her official E -Mail address on Monday, March 31, and was confirmed by our request for comment. However, King did not answer specific questions at the time of printing.
King-which has a documented history of using the anti-LGBTQ+ language in accordance with Christian nationalism and appeared next to the Neo-Nazi group during the protest at the Duma event in Celina in Ohio-Oscarż, transgender candidates about a lie about their legal identity during the episode “The Windsor Report”, politically conservative, Anti-LGBTQ+ Talk-Radio, organized by Jacek Wider.
“For a group who wants to talk about inclusion, they don’t want equality,” said King. “They don’t want to play according to the same rules as everyone else. What they really want are special rights or dismissals to get around the law.”
Republican supporters of the reform
After led to avoid disqualification on the basis of the same right change of the name Ohio, which were already used to direct several transgender candidates at the beginning of this year, a republican representative of the state of Tex Fischer said it was interested in the reform of the Act.
Fischer – who is not transgender – by law changed his name from “Austin James Fischer” to “Austin James Texford Fischer” in 2020. His candidacy was unsuccessfully questioned by the official of the Democratic Party of the Democratic Party of Mahoning.
“I believe that the law regarding changes in names requires reform. I think that disqualification as something that is minor is unfair and does not serve the interests of society,” Buckeye Flame said last year, noticing that he would like to meet the candidates affected by the act to discuss the reform efforts during the next congress session.
“I also don’t think to publish someone’s name on the vote,” added Fischer. “My situation is of course different. Someone like Vanessa Joy or Arienne Childrey is much more important to them and I do not think that publishing the previous name really contributes to the voters and only causes the candidate’s regret.”
This week, Fischer said that his views did not change.
“It is still my intention to introduce recipes later on this GA to remove the dead requirement,” said Fischer Buckee Flame. “I don’t have any problems with HB 196, but I don’t think it concerns the problem I want to solve. I’m glad that the problem with the form does not have an adequate space for information about changing the name, because it is less likely that someone will violate the law innocently and will be disqualified.”
“We can protect voters from bad actors who can change their names, without depriving people of people who are not trying to hide anything,” he added.
“I think that the spirit of original law makes sense, i.e. assuring that people do not change their names for political purposes or try to hide things from voters,” said Fischer. “But I don’t think that the situations we deal with violated the spirit of this right and should be changed.”
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