Mark Green was Donald Trump's pick for Secretary of the Army but he withdrew his nomination earlier this year after toxic remarks he made about LGBT people surfaced. Like a bad penny, though, the Tennessee state senator has resurfaced—this time as a Republican candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives.

Green is eyeing Tennessee’s 7th congressional district, where Rep. Marsha Blackburn has declared her intention to run for U.S. Senate.

“As a proven conservative fighter, I am ready to earn the trust of the voters and take my values and leadership to the United States Congress,” Green said in a statement to The Tennessean.

As a state senator, Green sponsored a variety of religious-freedom legislation, and a bathroom bill that would have deprived trans people the right to use the facilities that match their gender identity. One measure signed into law allows therapists to refuse to treat LGBT patients.

Green had the credentials to be the Secretary of the Army: He was a decorated war hero and part of the operation that captured Saddam Hussein. But his cabinet aspirations were torpedoed when video from a Tea Party event was uncovered showing him declaring being transgender was a mental illness.

“If you poll the psychiatrists, they’re going to tell you that transgender is a disease,” Green said. “It is a part of the DSM-6, I think it is, the book of diagnostic psychological procedures or diagnoses.” (The American Psychological Association removed gender identity disorder from DSM-5’s list of mental disorders. As The Washington Blade points out, there is no DSM-6.)

At the same rally, Green called President Obama's directive to protect transgender students "absurd" and encouraged state officials to disobey Obergefell v. Hodges.

He's still got to secure the party's nomination. (The primary isn't until August 2, 2018.) A lot can happen in a year—if we're lucky maybe another incriminating video will surface.