Top 3 Hillary Clinton moments at Munich Security Conference: 'Disruptive and destabilizing'

By Jon Brown, Christian Post Reporter Tuesday, February 17, 2026

Clinton calls first trans member of Congress a 'gender rights champion'

Clinton moderated a different Munich Security Conference panel on Saturday titled "Girls Just Want to Have Fundamental Rights: Fighting the Global Pushback," which was attended by Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and featured comments from Rep. Sarah McBride, D-Del., who was born Tim and became the first transgender-identifying individual elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2024.

Hillary Clinton is moderating a “Fundamental Rights for Women” panel in Munich and her first “female” speaking guest is a biological male… the ‘first transgender member of Congress’, Rep. McBride.

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— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) February 14, 2026

Calling the freshman member of Congress a "gender rights champion," Clinton introduced McBride as someone who's "been on the front lines of this fight" and has "shown immense grace in the face of attacks, even from your fellow members of Congress."

McBride, who corrected his own use of "boogeyman" to "boogeyperson" during the panel, claimed the U.S. is "facing a well-funded, regressive right-wing movement, and they really have placed trans people at the center of that effort."

McBride, whose election prompted a tussle among lawmakers over congressional bathrooms, went on to assert that efforts to push back against transgender ideology will have negative consequences for biological women.

"[T]ransphobia, homophobia, misogyny and sexism are all rooted in the same prejudice: the belief that one perception at birth should dictate who you are, how you act, what you do, who you love and how you dress," McBride said.

McBride's appearance during a panel about women's issues prompted backlash on social media, including from January Littlejohn, who sued her daughter's Florida school district in 2021 after school officials helped her 13-year-old "socially transition" and use they/them pronouns.

"Regressive? There is NOTHING more regressive than transgender ideology," Littlejohn posted to X.

Littlejohn, who was featured at Trump's address to a joint session of Congress last year and whose case has been a topic on The Christian Post's "Gender Indoctrination" podcast, said transgender ideology is "all based on archaic sex stereotypes."

McBride and "all the other men demanding we see them as women [and] allow them into our spaces are the reason why women's rights are being threatened in the first place," Littlejohn added.

McBride received a glowing profile from the liberal Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) in 2025, which recounted his claim that he decided to come out to his parents while singing a Christmas carol in the pew of Westminster Presbyterian Church (PCUSA) in Wilmington, Delaware.