Katherine Deves Morgan is an Australian lawyer who ran unsuccessfully as a candidate for the centre-right Liberal Party of Australia at the 2022 Australian federal election.
19 Facts About Katherine Deves
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Katherine Deves has been criticised for her views and public statements about transgender people, and is a self-described anti-trans activist and TERF, or trans-exclusionary radical feminist.
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Katherine Deves has said she became interested in gender identity and women's sports around 2015.
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On September 21,2021, Katherine Deves filed an application to join the Liberal Party, and in December, the application was accepted.
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Katherine Deves applied for Warringah preselection in February 2022, but had been rejected on the grounds that she had not been a Liberal Party member for long enough.
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In early April 2022, a repository of Katherine Deves' deleted tweets was uploaded to Github by a German computer programmer.
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Katherine Deves stated that transgender children were "surgically mutilated and sterilised", which she initially apologised for, before withdrawing her apology.
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Katherine Deves was invited to the Sydney Jewish Museum, after her comment relating to the Holocaust.
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Katherine Deves routinely misgendered transgender athletes, such as Laurel Hubbard and Hannah Mouncey, described Wear it Purple Day as a "grooming tactic used by gender extremists", and described the gay and lesbian movement as being "hijacked by gender activists".
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Many Liberals, including New South Wales Treasurer Matt Kean and member for the federal seat of North Sydney Trent Zimmerman called for Katherine Deves to be disendorsed; however, other anonymous Liberal Party members and Morrison backed her.
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Birmingham stated that Katherine Deves' candidature had had a "contagion effect on adjacent seats", where her controversy hurt the Liberal vote both in Warringah and for other Liberal candidates elsewhere.
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On 17 April 2023, Katherine Deves announced that she would be nominating to fill the Senate vacancy left by Jim Molan.
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In June 2023, an application made by Katherine Deves to dismiss the case was rejected.
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The Australian Monarchist League received controversy when it announced Katherine Deves would be speaking at their annual conference.
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Katherine Deves opposed "draconian" COVID-19 policies implemented by the New South Wales Liberal Party, and called for the Prime Minister to "sort out the vaccine rollout".
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Katherine Deves is against pornography, calling it "a corrupting influence", and is against pushes to ban gay conversion therapy, critical of a Victorian bill to ban the practice.
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Katherine Deves is a climate denier, stating on Twitter she believed climate change was a scam.
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Katherine Deves studied law at University of Sydney and qualified as a lawyer in 2021.
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Katherine Deves has contributed to Sky News Australia and The Spectator.