Both Labor’s Mark Butler and Opposition Leader Peter Dutton showed how out of touch they are on Australia’s red-hot gender debate this week.

While Donald Trump gets on with getting males out of girls’ sports and de-funding the child gender clinics, our politicians can’t work out whether they are Arthur or Martha.

Butler, who is Anthony Albanese’s Health Minister, was asked about biological males playing in girls and women’s sports.

“This is not an issue in Australia,” he foolishly said.

Kirralie Smith of the women’s and girl’s rights advocacy group Binary was in court last Friday fighting an Apprehended Violence Order brought against her by a male soccer player who identifies as a woman and plays in a women’s team.

Butler is a fool.

Sadly Peter Dutton, whom conservatives hoped would be conservative, inexplicably said yesterday that any inquiry into the harm of children through LGBTIQA+ child gender bending clinics was a “conscience vote” for his MPs.

Family First’s message to Mr Dutton is that it should not be a conscience vote to read the riot act to LGBTIQA+ gender clinics injecting children with puberty blockers without parental consent.