How Green was my trans-gender valley? Not very.

These days I rarely comment on political issues but at the last Federal election, the Green’s leader Adam Bandt was turfed out of his Melbourne seat which was won by Labor’s Sarah Witty with a swing of more than 8 per cent.

Even so, the Albanese government as to rely on the Greens in the Senate to get its legislation passed. The Greens have 10 senators and the balance of power but if they keep flogging the ‘trans people are women’ issue, they will be sent to the garbage heap of history.

The Green’s mission was to replace the Labor Party as the pre-eminent “progressive” party.

While the public is OK with the Greens having a role in the upper house – like the hopeless Democrats before them – it doesn’t trust them with a direct role in government, because some members are bonkers. Not just a bit bonkers but slathering.

It’s hard to remember the party grew out of the environmental movement because the split over transgender rights has led to the expulsion of co-founder, Drew Hutton.

Hutton calls the modern Greens, aggressive, weird, unlikeable, authoritarian and doctrinaire.

“What I disagree with vehemently is the way that anybody who actually voices any dissent with that policy and does so from a credible position, that there is such a thing as biological sex and there are two sexes, is forced out of the party,” Mr Hutton said on the ABC.

“That’s extremely authoritarian. And what I worry about is that there is a very doctrinaire mentality developing in the Greens, especially with regard to this issue.”

“The main things they think are important are we get rid of the notion of biological sex and replace it with gender identity.”

While Hutton said he did not have an issue with transgender rights, he criticised campaigners for having “a closed set of beliefs. They have a closed language, which they understand but nobody else does”.

“There is a clear need for a party like the Greens … But there is also this fairly authoritarian and aggressive and unlikeable element to the Greens …” he said.

Since the 2013 election, community independents including the Teals have been slowly eating into the Green vote in Melbourne, Sydney and Perth.

In the UK, the Supreme Court ruled recently that a woman is defined by biological sex under equalities law.

Athletes will be eligible to compete in the female category for world-ranking competitions such as the world championships only if they clear a one-time gene test.

The test helps in determining biological sex and can be conducted via a cheek swab or blood test.

“It is really important in a sport that is permanently trying to attract more women that they enter a sport believing there is no biological glass ceiling,” the World Athletics president, Sebastian Coe, said.

“The test to confirm biological sex is a very important step in ensuring this is the case. We are saying, at elite level, for you to compete in the female category, you have to be biologically female.”