Michaelia Cash rejected transgender sports changes last year, despite Morrison embracing issue

The attorney general said changes were not being considered, despite the issue now being front and centre in the Coalition's campaign

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The attorney general, Michaelia Cash, rejected a push for changes to the Sex Discrimination Act aimed at excluding transgender people from single-sex sport late last year, despite Scott Morrison embracing the issue throughout the election campaign.

In February, the Tasmanian senator Claire Chandler introduced into the Senate the Save Women's Sport bill, which the controversial Liberal candidate Katherine Deves has claimed she helped develop.

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