I have noticed in discussion that those saying it is a rights issue don’t like to acknowledge that it about the additional privileges (often described as rights) that the extreme transgender rights activists want. Because equal rights is what they already have.
what they want is additional rights. They want to be able to coerce other people to comply with their philosophical belief. Such as in the way they wish people to use language around them.
They want to receive additional rights to access spaces and opportunities set aside for the sex they are not. For instance, a male person demanding to be placed in a female prison has the right to be placed in a male prison and female prison if they want to (and are not rapists in the UK). A male demanding to be treated as a female person wants to play sports in a sports category that they should not be playing in. They are not female athletes. So again, they want to have access to the male and the female sports categories.
And then there are the gender fluid male people who demand to be female one day and male the next.
And the only commonality between people with transgender identities is philosophical belief. No medical condition needed.
What other philosophical belief gets additional privileges that no one else in the population gets?
And what other people in the population has medical treatment available at public expense where their healthy bodies are subject to extreme body modifications to suit their philosophical belief? Surgical and chemical?
I think the discussion in rights is generally avoided these days by posters who understand that the mantras around ‘trans rights’ don’t get the response they want. They don’t like the objective reality stripped of all the emotional manipulation. And they don’t seem to be able to counter the arguments pointing this out. They have nothing but the same emotionally manipulative statements that convinced them.