Vanessa Joy was ruled ineligible under a state law that requires prospective candidates to put their former names on their candidate petitions.
  • 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.