Updated 3:54 p.m. | Alabama Republican Roy Moore has long railed against allowing transgender Americans to serve in the military. On Wednesday, the former state Supreme Court chief justice took his statements a step further.

“The transgenders don’t have rights,” he said Wednesday, according to the Montgomery Advertiser. Moore was at a press conference touting endorsements from 13 county sheriffs.

“They’ve never been denominated as having rights by the U.S. Supreme Court. [Democrat Doug Jones] believes in transgender bathrooms and transgenders in the military. I disagree with him 100 percent,” he said.

Moore and Jones will face off on Dec. 12 in the special election for the remaining term of former Sen. Jeff Sessions, who resigned in February to become attorney general.

The former judge’s comments came one day after Danica Roem, a transgender woman, unseated a conservative Republican in a Virginia House of Delegates race. She became the first transgender person elected to a statehouse.