Trans leaders across the state have…condemned the ad, including TransOhio executive director Dara Adkison.

“Transgender people are not an ideology, we are not an issue, we are human beings who just want to exist with the same rights and dignity as everyone else,” Adkison said. “No elected official regardless of party should be proud of a voting record of bipartisan bigotry, of deciding some Ohioans deserve representation while others dehumanization and hatred.”