Just who has rights? Whose rights are more important?

We frequently hear the slogan "Trans rights are human rights."

But wait a minute.

Do women who want spaces reserved for real, biological, women, have rights?

Just who has rights, and whose rights should prevail?

To put it melodramatically: "When rights collide"

(a play on the title of the sci-fi book "When Worlds Collide"). 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_Worlds_Collide?wprov=sfla1

See also 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_Worlds_Collide_%281951_film%29?wprov=sfla1

Back to the discussion.

Hillary Clinton in 1995 said 

"Human rights are women's rights, and vice versa."

https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/hillaryclintonbeijingspeech.htm

Now some transgender activists are saying 

"Trans rights are human rights, and vice versa."

If both are true, just apply transitivity, in the mathematical sense 🙂 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transitive_relation?wprov=sfla1

and you get 

"Women's rights are trans rights, and vice versa,"

which many women don't agree with.

E.g.

https://open.substack.com/pub/lisaselindavis/p/receipts-kara-dansky-edition

Of course a way out of this is to claim that both women's rights and trans rights contain within them universal human rights.

But then you lose the neat and, to the respective advocates, useful equivalences.

This poses a difficult problem for the Democratic Party.

It strives to be a "big tent," but some of its members may be saying 

"my way or I take the highway."