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Imagine if Barack Obama had invited Rachel Dolezal, the would-be African American, to discuss the impact of Donald Trump’s policies on black America. Hillary Clinton did the equivalent this week at the Munich Security Conference where she moderated a town hall titled “Girls Just Want to Have Fundamental Rights: Fighting the Global Pushback.” Clinton’s Rachel Dolezal figure was Sarah (né Timothy) McBride, celebrated as the first transgender member of the US Congress.

Why bring a man in to talk about women and fundamental rights? Why a man instead of a woman?

The problem is not McBride’s preferred pronouns but rather the lawmaker’s preferred policies, which elevate an ill-defined feeling known as “gender identity” over the immutable reality of biological sex. Ironically, given the title of Clinton’s town hall, these policies have undermined the fundamental rights of women and girls. They compel females to cede hard-won sports opportunities and medals to males. They require girls and women to change in locker rooms in front of boys and men. Horrifically, the priority given to “gender identity” forces female prison inmates to share close quarters with violent male felons. Under the Biden administration, the Centers for Disease Control issued health guidance for “pregnant people” and “lactating individuals,” erasing the very words “women” and “mothers.”

Erasing those words is a really really really bad thing to do. Erasure is the very thing that feminism exists to do away with. Women are not feeble shadowy afterthoughts who make no contribution and should be ignored. You’d think Hillary Clinton of all people would know that.

After this overview of the international “pushback,” Clinton teed up “the US Congresswoman from the state of Delaware, a gender rights champion,” to talk about the travails of trans people. McBride shared a tale of fellow members of Congress raising a ruckus when a woman who supposedly looked like McBride tried to enter a ladies room in the Capitol. The Delaware rep concurred with the previous speaker that “we are facing . . . a well-organized, well-funded right-wing regressive movement.” The central target of this movement, according to McBride, are trans people—with consequences for “women of all backgrounds.” McBride continued, “They use trans people as the tip of the spear,” to sanction gender policing—dictating how people should look and act based on “one perception at birth.” This policing, McBride argued disproportionately hurts “non-transgender women.” Women of all backgrounds. Non-transgender women. Did someone advise McBride to avoid the term “cis?” Clinton performed her familiar bobble-head nod as the Congressperson appropriated women’s struggles.

Why? Why do that? Even if you admire McBride, why get him to talk about women’s rights instead of a woman?