Since early 2016, I have watched on helplessly as right-wing factions in both the federal and state Liberal parties led a campaign to destroy their own program designed to protect LBGTI students in schools.

At some point, powerful people in the party must have made a decision that they could win votes by exploiting the fact that very young transgender children are sometimes misunderstood.

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