Last night The Washington Post reported that when President Donald Trump met with the Russian foreign minister and the Russian ambassador in the Oval Office last week, he proceeded to share highly classified information about the Islamic State terror network. By doing so, Trump compromised an important relationship with the then-unnamed U.S. ally (who The New York Times has since posited is Israel), who had provided the intelligence, and, as a result, the president also potentially endangered our national security.

Fire up the congressional hearings, launch that FBI investigation, and, all together now, “Lock him up, lock him up!” Amirite? Curiously enough, no—it seems that’s only the reaction when a woman is accused of mishandling classified information. No one wants to relitigate the 2016 election yet again, but the irony of the president’s latest imbroglio is just too glaring to ignore: President Trump just intentionally blabbed state secrets to a foreign adversary as if they were gossiping poolside at Mar-a-Lago, and will, in all likelihood, see few political consequences—but Hillary Clinton unintentionally compromised classified information via a private email server and she received the political equivalent of burning at the stake: FBI investigation, congressional interrogation, a threat by Trump on national television to jail her, and, most monumentally, the loss of the presidency. As actor John Fugelsang tweeted, “Yes, Trump revealed highly classified info to the Russian foreign minister; but in fairness it wasn’t via email & he doesn’t have a vagina.”

Yes, folks, this is what sexism looks like, and we need not be so loathe to admit it. If sexism is, by definition, discrimination against women on the basis of gender, it’s hard to deny it’s not at work when for the very same alleged offense—mishandling classified information that could put the U.S. at a security risk—a woman was excoriated, and a man is being defended and protected; the White House national security adviser H.R. McMaster has come out against the Washington Post report (despite the president’s own tweeted admission that the right to hand out such information came with the office). Sure, partisan politics loom large in the treatment of Trump versus Clinton, but we’d be kidding ourselves to say that sex has nothing to do with it when the same male leaders in the same Congress that habitually votes to deny women equal pay, reproductive rights, and health care via Planned Parenthood were ostensibly obsessed with Clinton’s emails under the guise that she may have compromised classified information, but are now backing up a fellow bro accused of doing the same.

In a truly remarkable flurry of flip-flops, the same congressional leaders that leapt to join the Clinton witch hunt are now showing deference to Trump. “It’s simple: Individuals who are ‘extremely careless’ w/ classified info should be denied further access to it,” Speaker Paul Ryan tweeted in July after the FBI announced that, after investigating Clinton over her email server, it did not find cause to charge her. But, surprise!, now that President Trump is reportedly transmitting top-secret national security information directly to Russian officials in the Oval Office, the issue is not so simple for Ryan. “We have no way to know what was said, but protecting our nation’s secrets is paramount,” said his spokesman in a cautious statement today. “The speaker hopes for a full explanation of the facts from the administration.”