Vanessa Joy was ruled ineligible under a state law that requires prospective candidates to put their former names on their candidate petitions.
  • phillaholic@lemm.ee
    2·
    11 months ago

    In order to change my name I had to pay a newspaper to announce it so it’s in the public record beyond court records.

    What was your reaction to being told that?

    • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
      3·
      11 months ago

      I was pissed. I was a broke college student and it was like $60 that I had to scrounge together. And it wasn’t the safest thing to be openly a trans woman in Ohio at the time. I didn’t necessarily want to hide from the future, but I also didn’t want people from my past to see as I was making a lot of clean breaks at the time.