Vanessa Joy was ruled ineligible under a state law that requires prospective candidates to put their former names on their candidate petitions.
  • snooggums@kbin.social
    73·
    9 months ago

    Ah yes, a law that sounds equal but mostly applies to women in practice due to who is most likely to change their name.

    • derf82@lemmy.worldEnglish
      71·
      9 months ago

      Changing name due to marriage is specifically excluded from this requirement, likely due to the disproportionate effect on women.

      • snooggums@kbin.social
        83·
        9 months ago

        So it just ends up being disproportionately targeted at transgender people then.

        Sorry, I assumed it was like the TSA PreCheck which requires every name change a woman has gone through during their entire life.