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"Hillary Clinton: Women’s Rights Champion Turned Traitor"

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Hillary Clinton: Women’s Rights Champion Turned Traitor

Presidents’ Day was February 16. Hillary Clinton, the woman who in 2016 nearly became the first female President of the United States, spent the weekend pandering to a man who calls himself a woman.

As a feminist and a lifelong Democrat, I voted enthusiastically for former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the 2016 primary and general elections.

She had, after all, championed the Family and Medical leave Act, worked to increase funding for child care, helped start the National Campaign to End Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy, campaigned for access to emergency contraception, voted in favor of abortion, and co-sponsored the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act (about fair pay for women).

Based on her record I, like many of her supporters, was confident that at a fundamental level Hillary Clinton both understood women’s rights and was committed to protecting and advancing them.

That’s why I was so disappointed to watch her platform a man during Saturday’s Fundamental Rights for Women panel at the Munich Security Conference.

As moderator, Clinton introduced U.S. Representative Sarah (born Timothy) McBride as the very first speaker. She described him as “someone who’s been involved in this work for a long time, in trying to explain, and truly bring people together, around issues of gender.”

To make matters worse, Clinton pretended that McBride is a woman. She described McBride as a “US Congresswoman from the state of Delaware.” She continued (speaking to McBride), “As a gender rights champion, and also the first openly transgender member of the United States Congress, you’ve been on the front lines of this fight.”

When Clinton described McBride as someone who’s “been involved in this work for a long time,” what did she mean by “this work?”

As a former national press secretary for the Human Rights Campaign (a leading organization in the push to prioritize self-declared “gender identity” over the material reality of sex in law, policy, and culture), and a close family friend of former President Joe Biden, whose administration did more than any other to advance the goals of the gender identity movement, McBride has certainly been involved in the work of making it possible for men to “identify as” women, over the objections of actual women.

McBride has, however, never done a thing to protect the fundamental rights of women. Quite the opposite, in fact, because McBride works to ensure women have no right to exclude men who call themselves women (“transgender women”) from female-only spaces, sports, or opportunities.

Clinton’s fulsome praise of McBride in Munich was not her first betrayal of the female sex. While in 1995, Clinton famously stood on a UN stage in Beijing and declared that “Human rights are women’s rights and women’s rights are human rights, once and for all,” it appears that “once and for all” really only meant until the early 2010s.

That was when the entire Democratic Party establishment decided that some men are women if they say so, if they mimic the stereotypes associated with femininity, and/or if they take hormones and have surgeries to make them more closely resemble women (i.e., “are trangender women”).

An early adopter of the new Democratic orthodoxy, in 2010, then-Secretary of State Clinton relaxed the rules for changing sex markers on passports so that surgery was no longer required.

It has not always been clear what, exactly, Hillary thinks about all of this. In 2019, she gave an interview with her daughter Chelsea. The interviewer asked them both if someone with a beard and penis can ever be a woman, Chelsea offered an enthusiastic “Ye-ess. Yes.” Hillary, however, looked “uneasy.”

When asked about sports, Chelsea stated that “she supports children being able to play on sports teams that match their gender identity.” Hillary was more cautious: “I think you’ve got to be sensitive to how difficult this is,” Hillary said. “There are women who’d say, ‘You know what, you’ve never had the kind of life experiences that I’ve had. So I respect who you are, but don’t tell me you’re the same as me.’ I hear that conversation all the time.” Hillary said that men should “absolutely” not be in women’s bathrooms and Chelsea glared at her.

Two days later, she posted on Facebook to say that “Trans rights are human rights.” She continued, “Let me be clear: transgender people deserve nothing short of full equality.”

Clinton’s capitulation on “gender” probably eased her relationship with her adult daughter, and with other Democratic elites, but at what cost?

People often use the word “gender” as a euphemism for sex, but this is dangerous. People like McBride have capitalized on the general public’s acceptance of the use of “gender” to mean sex in order to fight for men’s rights to be legally and socially recognized as women.

There was a spot on that panel in Munich that was meant for a woman. And Hillary Clinton gave it to a man who calls himself a woman.

In 1995, Secretary Clinton promised us that human rights are women’s rights and women’s rights are human rights, “once and for all.” Now she has completely abandoned us. As a traitor to her sex class, she should be ashamed.

Democratic contenders in 2028 should draw a lesson from the woman who was never President: speak the truth, even when pressured to lie. In doing so, you will protect your legacy—and you might just get yourself elected.

Submitted to Newsweek, Feb. 16, 2026