Grace Tame has unleashed on Katherine Deves for defending her ‘right to speak her mind’ against transgenders.
The former Australian of the Year took to Twitter to post a screenshot of a Sydney Morning Herald interview with Deves that was published on Friday.
A photo of Ms Deves was plastered across the front page and showed the Liberal candidate for Warringah smiling outside a pre-polling booth on Thursday.
Ms Deves then claimed in the article that most Australians ‘agree with her campaign on women’s sport’ before saying her comments about transgender people had been ‘decontextualised’ and ‘misinterpreted’.
An outraged Ms Tame accused the newspaper of softening hate speech by publishing the piece on Ms Deves.
Do better, @smh.
Katherine Deves’ views on trans children aren’t “controversial” they’re absolutely false.
Defending her “right to speak her mind”?
She is defending her right to spread disinformation and abuse, enabled by this propagandist puff piece.
Stop softening hate. pic.twitter.com/UHDvG8cNL6
— Grace Tame (@TamePunk) May 12, 2022
Do better, @smh,’ she tweeted. ‘Katherine Deves’ views on trans children aren’t ‘controversial’. They’re absolutely false.
‘Defending her ‘right to speak her mind’? She is defending her right to spread disinformation and abuse, enabled by this propagandist puff piece. Stop softening hate.’
Ms Deves insisted in the article that she was not transphobic and that most people sided with her opinion on transgenders competing in women’s sport.
She said the public backlash had taken a toll on her and shifted focus away from bigger issues like the rising cost of living, climate change and housing affordability.
‘I did not expect that some tweets about a complex, nuanced argument that I’d been having before I’d even considered putting my hand up for politics were going to dominate my campaign,’ she told Sydney Morning Herald.
‘I wouldn’t be human if I said this whole process hasn’t affected me, to see it turned into what it was turned into by the press. I was distraught and it caused me distress.’
Ms Deves said she could not be blamed if moderate Liberal MPs lost their seats in the upcoming federal election.
Ms Deves came under fire for transphobic comments, calling transgender people ‘surgically mutilated’.
‘I did not expect that some tweets about a complex, nuanced argument that I’d been having before I’d even considered putting my hand up for politics were going to dominate my campaign,’ she told Sydney Morning Herald.
‘I wouldn’t be human if I said this whole process hasn’t affected me, to see it turned into what it was turned into by the press. I was distraught and it caused me distress.’
Ms Deves said she could not be blamed if moderate Liberal MPs lost their seats in the upcoming federal election.
Ms Deves came under fire for transphobic comments, calling transgender people ‘surgically mutilated’.
