Australian senator Tyron Whitten of One Nation (a right-wing populist party with seats in the federal Senate) has described parents who support their transgender children as engaging in "child abuse," making the remarks during an interview filmed at Parliament House for a fringe YouTube channel. Fellow One Nation senators Pauline Hanson and Malcolm Roberts have made similarly dismissive comments about transgender Australians in recent podcast and YouTube appearances, with Roberts stating that gender identity recognition is "ingrained in law" in ways he opposes. Equality Australia CEO Anna Brown condemned the remarks, warning that targeting one of the country's "smallest and most marginalised communities" fuels division and real harm, noting that trans Australians already experience disproportionately high rates of discrimination and violence.