Not asking for special privileges or protections.
Asking for the same privileges and protections afforded to everyone else.
I was talking about protections, not privileges. The protected classes are the only ones that are actually protected by law. The fact that other groups (white, male, etc) benefit from privileges are a reason for there being protected classes, but they are not the same thing at all.
In EU there is no such list. Anti-discrimination law is quite a bit broader here, but so is also the exceptions.