A man who identifies as a transgender woman flipped a seat in the Alabama state House to the Democratic column in the devastating midterm elections.
Allison Montgomery obtained 53.2% of the vote to unseat the Republican incumbent state Rep. Phillip Rigsby, who garnered 46.7% of the vote.
Montgomery’s victory came on the coattails of a monumental midterm collapse of the Republican Party.
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The 32-year-old Episcopalian won the district despite it supporting Rigsby by 16 points in 2022.
Montgomery’s victory, along with one other victory, expanded Democratic representation in Alabama to 31 seats, but Republicans continue to have the upper hand with 74 seats.
“The culture war stuff is all to keep us from uniting and being stronger than the billionaires,” Montgomery said in a campaign video posted to social media.
“They
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