OPINION: Kieren Perkins is a breath of fresh air in trans debate, and Australia is with him
, which brought on . . . the APOCALYPSE!
It simply wasn’t an issue – and on the ground, still barely is. I vaguely remember a trans surfer doing well in a female comp in WA, yes? There might have possibly been one or two other episodes, but we don’t have trans athletes making any impact at elite netball, football, cricket or anywhere else? Those trans athletes who are visible are mostly at the community level, where they have been wonderfully embraced as living, breathing examples of the joys of sporting inclusiveness.
So why, if there was no problem, did the Morrison mob go so hard on it? As discussed in this space, it was simple gutter-level, dog-whistle politics, and Ms Deves was tapped as the torchbearer of it. AP