That is a bit too basic. But what does “civil rights for transgender people” mean?
First, every person in this country has “civil rights” as guaranteed by the federal and state constitutions, the same as every other person, you can’t violate those civil rights just because of a person’s “gender identity” (note that oddly, for owning a gun, we actually DO discriminate against people based on what “society” deems to be “mental disorders”).
And we have been doing sex reassignment surgeries for decades, and those who do this have long been treated as the sex they reassigned to, regardless of their initial biology — they have the “special civil rights” attached to that gender.
And in the rare cases of indeterminate gender, there has been no real fight about the idea that in these cases, gender needs to be picked, and the person has always had the “civil rights” that have been specially assigned to that gender.
Now, we had a big fight over whether using a bathroom is a “civil right”, and we overcame mostly democratic opposition to pass a law making it clear that you could not deny a person the use of a bathroom, or a seat on a bus, or service at a business, based on the race they were born with. (we haven’t yet gotten to where you are allowed to identify as another race).
But now we are in Wonderland territory, where if a man is accused of pulling out his member in front of a woman 30 years ago, he is “disqualified” from serving as a supreme court justice, but if that same man says he thinks he is a woman, and pulls out his member in front of women in a locker room, if the woman complains, SHE is the bigot and should be fired from her job.
BTW, this article does the “fake media” thing, replacing “sex” with “gender”, even though they are now different things; the proposed rule defines “sex”, not gender, and Title 9 is about “sex”, not “gender”.