The Legitimacy of Basing Moral Rights on Sex and Gender

This article attempts to investigate moral rights through gender Issues. Since some divine and human schools of thought recognize different moral rights for woman and man, so this question may raise here that whether basing different moral rights for woman and man on genetic or cultural differences (which is interpreted as difference between sex and gender) has rational justification? Due to moral dimensions (normative and analytical) it is required that this issue should be reviewed based upon theoretical approaches of moral school of thoughts. Deontological, Teleological and Virtue Ethics schools of thought give us capability and opportunity to answer the question. The results of this research that collected in a descriptive-analytic method shows that basing of moral rights on sex and gender differences is accepted in all other ethical school of thoughts except in rights-based approaches.