How EXACTLY do trans right dilute the rights of other minorities and/or women?

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[–]lefterfield 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

What is the exact mechanism by which you think this occurs?

What is this supposed to mean?

"Women's rights" -> "What about the children in Africa?"

Children in Africa are not a direct or indirect challenge to the rights of women anywhere else.

(Although arguably they overlap in many circumstances and largely should be able to co-exist).

How do they overlap? Women want the right to sex-segregated spaces - women's shelters, prisons, hospitals, changing rooms, dorms, barracks, sports, and many, many more. Women's rights include abortion, which is a question only relevant to people able to give birth. Women's rights include questions over pregnancy, childbirth, nursing, pornography as it relates to female bodies, prostitution as it relates to female persons. Pornography and prostitution may impact male people as well, but those would not fall under the purview of "women's rights."

So HOW do "Trans Rights"(what are these?) overlap and can co-exist with women's rights? There is a direct contradiction between sex = biology and sex = gender identity. This cannot be reconciled.

[–]MarkTwainiac 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Plus, half the children in Africa are female. So women's rights - which include rights of girls - include rights for female children in Africa. Many of whom will be subject to horrors visited only on female people such as FGM, (female) child rape, mandatory veiling, being kidnapped or sold into child or adolescent marriage, "corrective rape," infection with HIV by a male who believes raping a girl virgin will cure his own HIV, and femicide.

Children's rights are also inextricably tied to women's rights coz it's women who gestate and give birth to all children, boys & girls alike, and women provide the bulk of childcare. And coz most children in Africa will be kept alive in their first year or more of life by feeding from their mothers' breasts. Also, in much of Africa women provide the bulk of food and income for their children.

[–]lefterfield 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Completely agree. I thought OP was going for the tired trope of 'starving children in Africa', but it's so vague it could mean literally anything related to children that happen to dwell within that continent.

[–]GCCritical[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I regret asking.