The federal parliament sat this week, and the religious right used the time to test how far it can push a single idea: that the law should be made to say that sex is fixed at birth and nothing else. Three separate bills to strip gender-identity protections from the Sex Discrimination Act came at the Senate and the House from three directions — One Nation, the Liberals and the Nationals — and all three were stopped before they could even be debated. Michaelia Cash has already promised to make it an election issue. This is the same campaign that runs through the religious-school exemptions, the "biological reality" rhetoric and the Giggle v Tickle litigation: a coordinated effort to write one contested view of human nature into Commonwealth law. It failed this week but it's not going away.

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