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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Tamsin Rose

NSW premier agrees to meeting on transgender sport after independent Alex Greenwich threatens to withdraw support

Alex Greenwich, the independent member for Sydney
The independent member for Sydney, Alex Greenwich (pictured), has called on NSW premier Dominic Perrottet to meet with trans people and sporting codes. Photograph: Dan Himbrechts/AAP

The New South Wales premier, Dominic Perrottet, has agreed to meet independent MP Alex Greenwich and representatives from the trans community after Greenwich threatened to withdraw support from the minority government.

Greenwich – one of a handful of lower house MPs the Coalition relies on to govern – demanded the meeting on Friday following repeated comments made by the premier about the participation of transgender children in sport.

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