He linked to a Daily Telegraph article that revealed teachers were being "trained to identify potential transgender children in the classroom" and that this had contributed to a surge in the number of kids presenting at gender dysphoria clinics.

BuzzFeed News spoke to some transgender young people and the mother of a transgender boy about how the prime minister's tweet made them feel.

Tasmanian disability advocate Roen Meijers identifies as gender non-binary and said trans kids might not have the words for what they are feeling, but they "know something is deeply wrong".

"As soon as I had the language and figured out what was wrong, that gave me the power to make healthy choices," the 29-year-old told BuzzFeed News.

"What I really needed as a teenager and as a kid was more time to figure out what was happening before anything irreversible happened to my body, and I didn't get that.

"I didn't know what was going wrong but I knew something was wrong enough that I attempted to take my own life, and if I'd had adults around me who had training and understanding I might have known there was another choice."

Meijers said their initial reaction to Morrison's tweet was "sadness".



"I think the prime minister is coming from a place of faith, and my family are Christian and take their faith really seriously, and there is no conflict between faith and trans identity," they said.