Sport is not the place for social engineering

A very tiny proportion of children are born this way and a compassionate society makes every reasonable accommodation to ensure they are not stigmatised.

But those wishing to identify as someone other than their biological gender need to realise that this has consequences for the rights and freedoms of other people.

And all of us should be free to have a civil and respectful discussion about what it means to be male and female without our politically correct overlords forcing us to use new language or change the locker room policies at our local sports club.

Reasonable accommodations can and should be found for anyone working through issues of gender identity.

But using sport to drive law-backed contested gender ideology through our culture is un-Australian and potentially unsafe.