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The midterm elections are now over and the incessant anti-trans commercials have blessedly stopped. The blue tsunami flipped the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate to Democratic majorities, even as ballot measures to ban transgender student-athletes from playing on girls’ sports teams passed in Arizona, Colorado, Nebraska and Washington. In a pro-LGBTQ+ development, Missouri voters defeated an abortion ban that would also have restricted gender-affirming care for trans minors. Here in Ohio, Democrats swept the races for governor (Amy Acton), U.S. Senator (Sherrod Brown), attorney general (John Kulewicz) and secretary of state (Allison Russo), losing only the race for state auditor to Republican Frank LaRose, the only statewide contest in which a candidate (Democrat Annette Blackwell) was a Black woman.

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