Eighteen Coalition senators sided with Pauline Hanson, despite Peter Dutton telling them to avoid culture wars and support the government’s existing review.
The majority of Coalition senators have swung in behind One Nation Leader Pauline Hanson’s bid for a fresh parliamentary inquiry into medical treatments for transgender children, less than a week after Opposition Leader Peter Dutton cautioned his MPs to steer clear of culture wars before the federal election.
While Monday’s vote failed, it drags the Coalition into culture wars on trans issues and risks making senators appear defiant of Dutton, who last week told his party room the opposition needed to campaign on the cost of living and could not be distracted by anything else, according to reports in this masthead.
A review of medical treatment for transgender children is already underway in Australia with bipartisan support. Butler commissioned the review after the Queensland government announced it would pause the prescription of gender transition drugs for young people. “These issues should be nationally consistent, and in my view, should be driven by the pre-eminent authority,” Butler said in late January.Both Dutton and opposition health spokeswoman Anne Ruston backed Butler’s review last month, with Ruston saying that young people’s health “should be informed by empirical evidence and by our health experts”.
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