‘Toxic rhetoric’: marriage equality plebiscite offers ugly lessons for Indigenous voice to parliament referendum

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From the age of five Keenan Smith knew they felt different, lacking the sense of ease other children in country Australia took for granted and bristling at being pushed towards rough and tumble sports and toy trucks and guns.

I didn't like the same things that boys would use in that age group, things like sports and those traditionally gendered things," the Wirangu, Mirning and Kokatha person says.