The midterms are over. Now we need Ohio’s trans allies to work harder and be louder than ever. [COMMENTARY]

Trans Allies of Ohio is a grassroots organization of mostly parents and caregivers of transgender Ohioans. We exist to provide support and resources to transgender Ohioans and people who love them. By Dana Oleskiewicz and Minna Zelch, Trans Allies of Ohio The 2026 election is over, and the ‘blue tsunami’ has left many LGB people relieved. However, many transgender Ohioans and their families greeted November 4 with only tepid enthusiasm. With this election, our families were placed front and center in the storm, demonized by both the political right and the political left. Our children became, yet again, unwitting and unwilling political pawns in a fight they never wanted. Our children are still denied access to basic health care, erased from libraries and classrooms, unable to use restrooms at schools, prohibited from playing sports with friends and forced to carry identity documents that risk their safety.

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