Why Katherine Deves Should Be Sacked

starobserver.com.au:

This is why Scott Morrison – who did not support marriage equality, calls us gender whisperers, equivocates on conversion therapy, and dragged us through hell with the Religious Discrimination Bill – is so in love with the TERF campaign around women’s sports.There are no sporting associations that have raised any issue with trans participation in sports, and such a ban would do nothing to resolve the issues that advocates of women’s sport discuss like equal pay and media attention.

And yet we are presented with this macabre joke of a bill.We are also presented with a joke of a candidate. In the midst of court challenges, Scott Morrison personally appointed Katherine Deves as the Liberal candidate for Warringah, and describes her as an “outstanding individual” and that he “shares her views on those topics.”Deves is a co-founder of Save Women’s Sports Australasia, and deeply involved in TERF politics, and it is clear that Morrison thinks this will distract from his party’s record on women’s issues.

However she has posted almost exclusively on social media about trans people for the last two years describing the rainbow flag as “triggering”, Wear It Purple Day as about “grooming”, and children’s bodies as “mutilated”, and confirms her disinterest in women’s rights when in an interview she describes how the rape of Brittany Higgins can be exploited for this campaign.In the wake of these disturbing revelations about Deves there has been mounting pressure with both Greens and Independent candidates, demanding she be sacked as the Liberal candidate.

Albanese has also come out expressing his scepticism about the sports bill, and a number of so-called moderate Liberals have come out opposing the bill as well.