Transgender lawmaker and Hillary Clinton partner on girls’ rights
Transgender Congresswoman Sarah McBride (D-Del.) will join Hillary Clinton at the Munich Security Conference to highlight girls’ fundamental rights on a panel moderated by Clinton, titled “Girls Just want to Have Fundamental Rights: fighting the Global Pushback.” McBride confirmed she will attend despite official congressionally funded travel to the conference being canceled due to a Department of Homeland Security funding lapse. Clinton and mcbride have both championed women’s rights, with McBride co-sponsoring abortion-access legislation such as the Women’s Health Protection Act, the Access to Reproductive Care for Service Members Act, and the My Body, My Data act. The event takes place amid a looming partial government shutdown after Congress failed to reach a DHS funding deal.
Transgender lawmaker teams up with Hillary Clinton for girls’ rights forum
America’s first transgender member of Congress and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are joining forces to highlight girls’ fundamental rights at the Munich Security Conference.
Rep. Sarah McBride (D-DE), a transgender woman, will speak on a panel moderated by Clinton on Saturday, labeled “Girls Just Want to Have Fundamental Rights: Fighting the Global Pushback.”
McBride’s office confirmed to the Washington Examiner that the first-term representative would be in attendance, even though official congressionally-paid travel to the conference was canceled due to a looming funding lapse of the Department of Homeland Security.
Both McBride and Clinton have pushed legislative agendas that support women’s rights. Clinton has a longtime track record of advocacy on the topic across her time as first lady, senator from New York, secretary of state, and 2016 Democratic Party presidential nominee.
“Women’s rights are human rights,” Clinton said at the Fourth World Conference on Women in China in 1995.
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Since being sworn into Congress last year, McBride has co-sponsored legislation to expand access to abortion, including the Women’s Health Protection Act, the Access to Reproductive Care for Service Members Act, and the My Body, My Data Act.
A handful of lawmakers from both chambers are expected at the Munich Security Conference, despite the partial government shutdown that will begin Saturday after Congress failed to reach a deal on DHS funding.
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