We live in an age where rights are multiplying like rabbits. Don't get me wrong: I like rabbits.

In Vermont, 16-year-old Kyle Giard-Chase marched over to the Vermont Human Rights Commission to demand the right to genderless bathrooms in public schools. Kyle is working with Outright Vermont, a social service organization for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender youth, which views unisex bathrooms as the next great civil rights revolution.

"The hope is that this is the first statewide gender-neutral bathroom campaign in the country," Outright's executive director Christopher Neff told The Associated Press. "Vermont is a leader. This is another opportunity to again be the first in the nation."

Yet up in Maine, a genderless bathroom is not the human rights solution; it's the new human rights violation. In a case decided last month, a biological boy in a grade school who identifies as a girl was given the option of using the faculty's unisex bathroom. Instead the child's parents went straight to Maine's Human Rights Commission, which ruled the child had the right to use the girls' bathroom, regardless of how uncomfortable it makes the girls feel.

The discovery that a South African runner, Caster Semenya (who always thought she was a girl), was actually biologically intersex has provoked an international incident. South Africans are calling the invasive attempt by International Association of Athletics Federations officials to discover if she is really a girl a violation of her basic human rights. South Africa's government lodged a formal complaint with the United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women, according to news reports. The South African Parliament will demand compensation from the IAAF. In a public statement, Athletics South Africa demanded an apology from the IAAF to Semenya, her family and "the people of South Africa" for failing "to observe the confidentiality required to handle the matter of this sensitivity and the human rights of the athlete."

Do you have to be a woman to play in women's sports? If so, who decides whether you are a woman, and how? If not, what happens to women's sports?

But this Saturday, Abraham Korotki, 65, of Ventnor City, N.J., broke truly historic new ground in the expansive rights revolution: Korotki became the first known man to win the Ladies No-Limit Texas Hold 'Em title at the Borgata casino in Atlantic City.

Nicole Rowe, who finished second to Korotki, was not amused. "When you're a woman and you play poker, 99 percent of the time you're at a table with nine men," Rowe told the Philadelphia Daily News. Playing against a field of women is "something I look forward to. Why did he have to ruin it for us? Why would he do this?"

I dunno. Maybe for the money? Winning top honors garnered Korotki almost $21,000, while Nicole (who is trying to earn money to recuperate from breast cancer) scraped by with only around $11,000. But Korotki told reporters he is planning on donating the money to charity.

Most men are sufficiently insecure in their masculinity that they will avoid like the plague any appearance that they are a woman, or want to play in the girls' league. But Korotki, demonstrating a higher masculinity, had no particular intentions of becoming a trailblazer: He just wanted to play. After losing on a bad beat in the regular tournament, he simply "wanted to get back on the horse." He says now that if anyone had told him it was against the rules, he wouldn't have played at all.

But is it against the rules? Can a commercial establishment adopt a "no man allowed" rule for a public game?

Why racing and not poker?

I promise you one thing: In our litigious rights-seeking age, inquiring minds will want to know.