Axe the witch
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has sided with Tony Abbott and refused to join a “pile on” calling for embattled Liberal candidate Katherine Deves to be axed as the party’s candidate in the formerly blue-ribbon seat of Warringah.
Furious lobbying is under way with the Liberal Party to have Deves axed from the ticket in Warringah and a replacement candidate named before April 21, which is the cut-off date.
The Liberal Party is the right-wing party.
NSW Treasurer Matt Kean launched a blistering attack on Deves on Friday night, declaring she had to be dumped as the Liberal candidate for Warringah because of her comments about gender identity and LGBTQ issues.
“There should be no place for bigotry in a mainstream political party, let alone anywhere,” Kean told The Sydney Morning Herald.
“The Liberal Party should be about building a better country for everyone not dividing people based on their identity.”
Who is this terrible person, so bigoted that she offends even the right-wing party?
Deves runs a lobby group, Save Women’s Sport, which is opposed to the inclusion of trans women in women’s sport. She deleted her Twitter account but old tweets resurfaced in which she called trans children “surgically mutilated and sterilised” and said she was triggered by the rainbow flag.
But trans children [if they get surgery and/or puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones] are surgically mutilated and sterilized. Saying so is not an insult to the children, it’s an accusation of the reckless adults who make it happen.
I am so far left I can smell the communism on Trotsky’s breath, but in this case, I partially agree with Deves. I agree women’s sport is for women, that men are not women, and children should not be medical experiments.
However, Deves biggest error was her claim that 50% of trans women are sex offenders. That number is so far of the charts that it makes it easy for her opponents to tar her with the bigot label.
TRAs in Australia haven’t quite gained the same hold as in UK and USA, although they have had some minor wins, eg, Tasmania now allows a birth certificate to be changed to show current gender ID not natal sex.
As for Abbott and Morrison – Morrison is an adherent of Hillsong Mega Prosperity Church, although with the downfall of its leader, he has done a Peter and denied attending for 19 years. But the photos don’t lie. Morrison opposed legalising same sex marriage, instead of voting his convictions in Parliament, he hid in his office when the vote was taken.
Abbott is a fundamentalist Roman Catholic, a supporter of George Pell, and claims it is only his church that has moral authority.
Scum, all of them.
Re #1, she misspoke, perhaps. Half of all transgender prisoners are sex offenders or otherwise known dangerous, according to a 2017 study reported on here by FPFW. That’s an important qualifier, obviously. Perhaps she thinks prisoners are like the general population, but charitably I think she got the information mixed up.
Possibly, Sackbut. Possibly. But I doubt it as at the same time she claimed 20% of all men are sex offenders.
I know that not all rapes are reported, that fewer are prosecuted, and even fewer result in a conviction, but taking all that into account, her 20% has got to be so far out as the 50%. Remember, we are talking about the Australian experience where it isn’t as simple as self IDing as a woman to have yourself moved to a women’s prison, or having your crime counted as committed by a woman.
The same article notes, for comparison, that 20% of male prisoners are sex offenders. Either she is talking about prisoners, or she is confused that the statistics for prisoners are the statistics for the general population.
I believe it is the latter.
Why do people have such a hard time getting this construction right? It’s supposed to be, “[easy thing], let alone [difficult thing].” As in, if the easy thing is too hard, then the difficult thing is out of consideration.
I keep seeing people get this and related constructions backwards. They can’t get basic sentences right, let alone manage a coherent syllogism.
@ Rev David Brindley
I believe that people are deliberately misinterpreting Deves’ tweet to make her look as if she holds a position she doesn’t hold. It appears that the tweet was taken out of context, because the exact words are:
It would probably be clear from the context, but is clear enough from just this tweet if you aren’t predisposed to think the worst, that she is talking about the male prison population, which is also known as the male estate.
Tigger @ 7
Thanks for that. I figured it was a simple error, rather than a dreadfully mistaken belief, but it appears to be even less than that: the context for her remarks was missing.
Sackbut @ 8
I have a screenshot of the tweet, taken not by me but by one of the people wilfully misunderstanding her. Indeed, apparently so many people were trawling her tweet history to find anything that they could use against her, that she has deleted her account.
Graham Linehan has made a post about it.
#IStandWithKatherineDeves