One Nation senator says parents who support their trans children are engaging in ‘child abuse’

‘There’s male, there’s female, and then there’s mental illness,’ Tyron Whitten says on YouTube show

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One Nation senator Tyron Whitten has claimed parents supporting their children who identify as transgender are engaging in “child abuse”, telling a fringe YouTube show: “there’s male, there’s female, and then there’s mental illness”.

Guardian Australia has unearthed several incendiary comments from Whitten and fellow One Nation senators Pauline Hanson and her longtime lieutenant Malcolm Roberts, about transgender Australians.