Beth Lear is an American politician who has served in the

Ohio House of Representatives The Ohio House of Representatives is the lower house of the Ohio General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Ohio; the other house of the bicameral legislature being the Ohio Senate. The House of Representatives first met in ...

from the 61st district since 2023. She is a veteran, and a graduate of

Olentangy High School Olentangy High School is a public comprehensive secondary school located in Lewis Center, Ohio, operated by the Olentangy Local School District. In 2007, the school was ranked as the 97th best high school in the U.S. by ''Newsweek''. Then, in ...

and

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Political positions

Transgender rights

In January 2024, Lear co-sponsored a bill which would ban transgender people from bathrooms that align with their gender identity in schools. During the hearing for the bill, she compared identifying as transgender to identifying as a bird.

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External links

Campaign website
Living people Republican Party members of the Ohio House of Representatives 21st-century members of the Ohio General Assembly 21st-century American women politicians Women state legislators in Ohio Ohio State University alumni Ohio National Guard personnel Year of birth missing (living people) {{Ohio-politician-stub