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Vanessa Joy was booted off the ballot because she did not include her deadname on official documents.

Watch a previous NBC4 report on former Ohio candidate Vanessa Joy in the video player above. COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — A transgender candidate running for a seat in Ohio’s House of Representatives has been cleared to campaign after her certification was called into question for omitting her former legal name. The Mercer County Board of […]

A county board in Ohio has refused to reconsider the disqualification of a transgender state House candidate who omitted her former name from circulating petitions, even as other transgender candidates have been cleared for the ballot. The Stark County Board of Elections said in a statement Friday that it stands by its decision to disqualify Vanessa Joy, a real estate photographer from Massillon, Ohio, because she did not put a name that no longer aligns with her gender identity — also referred to as a deadname — on the petitions used to gather signatures to get on the ballot. ...

The law has been used to disqualify three trans Democrats from running for office. But at least one is fighting back.

A second transgender candidate running for a seat in the Republican-majority Ohio House is at risk of being disqualified from the ballot after omitting her former name on circulating petitions. The Mercer County Board of Elections is set to vote Thursday on whether Arienne Childrey, a Democrat from Auglaize County and one of four transgender individuals campaigning for the Legislature, is eligible to run after not disclosing her previous name, also known as her deadname, on her petition paperwork. A little-used Ohio elections law, unfamiliar even to many state elections officials, mandates t...