A GOP leader called 2 trans Democrats mentally ill. They minced no words...

[Jessica_Rose ✅]

A GOP leader called 2 trans Democrats mentally ill. They minced no words in their scathing replies.

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/10/a-gop-leader-called-2-trans-democrats-mentally-ill-they-minced-no-words-in-their-scathing-replies/ 🔗

Molly Sprayregen (19 Oct 2026)

The chair of the Alabama Republican Party called two transgender Democrats "men who have mental disorders," but the two candidates for state House aren't taking the insult lying down.

State Rep. Scott Stadthagen (R) made the comment earlier this month during a speech to the Eastern Shore Republican Women, where he also called the candidates "men... who like to dress like women, who think they are females."

The candidates, Allison "Ally" Montgomery and Terri Osborne, both called out Stadthagen and the broader Republican Party for focusing on their trans identities as a way to distract voters from their lack of solutions to the problems voters actually care about.

"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 wrote on Facebook.

She then asked, "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," she added. "Did transgender people do that, because I'm pretty sure Republican policies did all that?"

"Fear mongering," she continued, "especially about Trans women, is the MAGA party's stock in trade. There is nothing inherently 'sexual' about being a transgender woman as we go about going to the grocery store, attend church, go to work, raise a family, be around children, or, like me, running for public office. My existence is not a sexual performance, and my womanhood is not a threat to anybody's children... or any of his business."
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[Lori Dee ✅]

Well, since all that matters is "assigned at birth," his name is Gregory Stadthagen Jr.

He has sponsored numerous bills targeting LGBT people as part of the larger 2020s anti-LGBT movement. In February 2022, he introduced House Bill 322, a bathroom bill targeting transgender students. The bill was later amended by the Alabama Senate to include a restriction of classroom discussion or instruction about sexual orientation or gender identity from kindergarten through fifth grade, drawing comparisons to Florida's Don't Say Gay bill.

"The aims of the bill are not controversial — or, at least, they weren't controversial until the Left made the simple act of going to the bathroom a political issue," said Stadthagen after the bill was signed into law by Governor Kay Ivey in April.


You made going to the bathroom political, Gregory, when you introduced the bill in 2022. "The Left" didn't do it. You did.

[Laura Squirrel]

It always cracks me up when they boil this down to sex, sex, sex.

Dude, I'm almost 50, and I am still a virgin. That is by choice. Chances are that if I had been born in the right body, I would still be one.