[bokoharambe]

Ah, the great American rhetorical tradition of masking discrimination in the language of civility. Just like pre-Jacksonian restrictions on voting protected the rights of the propertied from the depredations of the masses. Or how Jim Crow protected the rights of white southerners from those uneducated undesirables threatening orderly society. Or how restricting gay marriage protected the rights of Christians...

I hear exactly what you are saying, clear as day.

[zippipi]

You should elaborate on why you believe these are comparable.

For example, consider a male convict who desires to be incarcerated in the female prison estate. Is it really civil rights discrimination to deny him this? If so, how?

Most importantly, what about the civil rights of the female prisoners he would be incarcerated with, if this were permitted?

[bokoharambe]

American prisons violate any notion of humaneness and rights from the outset. The abject subjects who are condemned to dwell in them cannot be used to illustrate anything about civil rights, other than the fact that the state regularly uses its sovereign power to violate them.

If I was under constant threat of rape or murder, I would do anything to get to a situation that I thought might be less dangerous.