On Tuesday, something astonishing happened in the city of Huntsville, Alabama: voters elected as their state representative a transgender Democrat called Allison Montgomery.
The software engineer, who used to be called William, campaigned against legal sex-based definitions and the right of parents to know if their child is ‘transitioning’.
Montgomery is not, in other words, the sort of candidate you’d expect to win in ‘Bama’ – sweet home of the conservative South.
But it happened. And the main reason for that is not that the residents of Huntsville, the site of a major army base, have all suddenly turned ultra-woke.
It’s that the people
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