Katherine Deves

Katherine Deves Morgan is an Australian lawyer who ran unsuccessfully as a candidate for the Liberal Party at the 2022 Australian federal election. She identifies as a Gender-critical feminist.

Quotes

• [Representing the pressure group Save Women’s Sport Australasia] Women have fought for decades to have access to similar resources (as male sport), similar media coverage, pay parity in professional sports — and now that we are actually starting to gain some ground, that's all being put at risk [by the admission of transwomen to women's sports].
  • As cited in "Female pushback over trans sport rules", The Australian (12 October 2020)

• [Asked why transwomen should be admitted to women's sports] Because the feelings of addled and entitled men are far more important than the inescapable, lived reality of little girls, teenage girls, young women and older women.
  • Tweet (13 December 2021), as cited in "From internet activist to captain’s pick: who is Katherine Deves?", Sydney Morning Herald (24 April 2022)

• The [Julia] Gillard amendments imposed the biggest game of wilful pretend imaginable on women and girls, now forced to suspend their reality and believe that a 'penis-owner' is a woman, because he says so. This would be laughable if it was not so serious. On ABC radio recently, Gillard asked "why aren’t we further along?" with respect to gender equality. She blames the vile sewer of social media and women's difficult balancing act of work and family life. No mention at all of the alarming and increasing impact of her government’s amendments to the SDA [Sex Discrimination Act 1984].
  • "Gillard’s guilt: How our first female PM cancelled women", Spectator Australia (22 October 2022)

• Despite ample evidence demonstrating almost all children with distress about their natal sex resolve this during puberty, experimental medical interventions rather than "watchful waiting" are being baked into law and policy as the solution.
  We are sterilising a generation of gay and lesbian children by turning them into profit-centres.
  Yet those hiding behind the credibility of the Pride flag have the audacity to attack those raising the alarm as "homophobic" and "transphobic".
  • "'I am not a homophobe': Former Warringah candidate Katherine Deves unleashes on fellow Liberals Matt Kean and Andrew Bragg who 'maliciously maligned' her during the federal election", Sky News Australia (17 November 2022)

• We didn't want this culture war either. Neither does anyone else, but when women were erased as a legal class, dissenters were punished, and the gender botherers came for our children, we would not be silent.
  • At the New South Wales parliamentary forum (June 2023), as cited in "Meet the Australian women making a stand for free speech", Spectator Australia (29 June 2023)