Hillary Clinton’s transgender heresy

Hillary Clinton’s BBC interview in London is making headlines mainly about Russia, but students of the debate about transgender rights and self-identification should pay close attention to another moment in the interview.

For Clinton, still the most prominent women on the left of politics in the world, said there are ‘legitimate concerns’ about the way the move to recognise transgender identities might affect women. Those concerns should he recognised, she told the BBC.

Now, this isn’t technically ‘news’ in the sense that it’s not the first time Clinton has spoken about this topic of late.

In a Sunday Times interview last month Hillary Clinton and her daughter disagreed about the gender issue, with Chelsea Clinton saying that she would recognise a transwomen with a beard and a penis as a woman and Hillary Clinton expressing doubt.

Because that exchange made headlines, the BBC’s Mishal Husain quite properly followed up on it in her interview with the Clintons.