Alabama Democrats hit back at GOP on affordability: ‘Did transgender people do that?’

Alabama Democrats are pushing back after one of the state’s top Republican leaders made anti-trans remarks about two candidates seeking seats in the state Legislature.Allison “Ally” Montgomery and Terri Osborne, who are both transgender and running as Democrats for separate seats in Alabama’s House of Representatives, were the targets of Scott Stadthagen, chair of the Alabama Republican Party, during a speech to the Eastern Shore Republican Women.“We’ve got two men who have mental disorders, who like to dress like women, who think they are females on the ballot this general election,” Stadthagen said, according to The Alabama Political Reporter. “One’s in Madison County, one’s in Baldwin County. That is a mental disorder, ladies and gentlemen.”Montgomery and Osborne responded that Republicans are more focused on gender than on other issues because they have nothing else to run on.Related: Democrats keep asking trans people for money. We’re asking for a backbone“I find it amazing that Representative Scott Stadthagen and my opponent, Danielle Duggar, seem so obsessed with my gender that they apparently have no time to discuss the problems facing the people of Alabama,” Osborne said in a video posted on her campaign site and in a text version on her Facebook page.“First off, to address their entirely ignorant, uneducated, and bigoted comments: biologically I have the secondary sexual characteristics and a primary sexual characteristic of an adult human female; thus, making me a biological woman. Those are verifiable facts,” she said.“I would, however, like to know, how, precisely have trans women caused families in Baldwin County to struggle to afford groceries, housing, insurance, and healthcare? Our roads are increasingly congested, teachers need support, and Alabama continues to refuse Medicaid expansion while rural hospitals struggle to survive. Did transgender people do that, because I’m pretty sure Republican policies did all t