Grace Tame slams Katherine Deves after the Liberal candidate insisted she’s NOT transphobic

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. 

Ms Deves 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’

‘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’.

An outraged Ms Tame accused the newspaper of softening hate speech by publishing the piece on Ms Deves

‘Do better, @smh,’ Ms Tame tweeted. ‘Katherine Deves’ views on trans children aren’t ‘controversial’ they’re absolutely false’

While she initially apologised for the comments, earlier this week she walked back the apology saying mutilation was the ‘correct medico-legal term’.

NSW Treasurer Matt Kean and North Sydney federal MP Trent Zimmerman are among the moderate Liberals who have demanded Ms Deves be disendorsed.

Fears have grown that her controversial tweets could sway voters away from the Liberals and open up the seats for Independent candidates.

Ms Deves has been forced to hire a bodyguard following the backlash around her tweets.

‘It’s really debased the electoral process — people should be able to speak their minds and engage and put their hands up for public office without their safety or their children’s safety put at risk,’ she said. 

The Liberal candidate said she was neither conservative or moderate, but had voted for same-sex marriage.

She admitted one of her daughters had begun to question gender roles and had wanted to cut her hair and play rugby league.  

Ms Deves said she was supportive of her children’s decisions.    

Ms Deves said she could not be blamed if moderate Liberal MPs lost their seats in the upcoming federal election