A slew of controversial tweets from Katherine Deves’ now-deleted Twitter account have been unearthed.
Source: News.com.au.
AUSTRALIA – Liberal candidate Katherine Deves believes there’s a link between cross-dressing men and trans women being “sexual predators, even serial killers”.
The candidate that Prime Minister Scott Morrison insists “should not be silenced” also believes that gay men who have surrogate babies are engaged in “human rights violations”.
In the latest unearthed tweets from her now deleted Twitter account, Ms Deves also suggests the “transabled” – people pretending to be disabled – “is a thing”.
“Didn’t (serial killer) Ted Bundy pretend to be injured to garner sympathy,’’ the Liberal hopeful wrote on September 4, 2021.
Just 24 hours after that post, she then suggested a link between cross-dressing and being a serial killer.
“Transvestism is very common amongst sexual predators, even serial killers,” she said.
“So how are we women supposed to tell the difference between the ones who are a threat and the ones who aren’t? Easier for women to exclude all males from spaces where we are vulnerable.”
Nominations close for political candidates on Thursday – the last date for the Liberal Party to remove her name from the ballot paper.
While transgender serial killers have been a popular trope in horror movies including Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho (1960), Brian De Palma’s Dressed to Kill (1980), and Jonathan Demme’s Silence of the Lambs (1991), there is no known link with transvestism and being a murderer.
The mother of three also slammed surrogacy as a “human rights violation” in a social media post attacking the birth of twins to a gay politician in the United States.
Ms Deves, who has previously stated she has family members who are gay, described the prospect of two gay men having a baby as a “vanity project”.
“Surrogacy is a human rights violation,’’ she wrote.
“Women’s bodies are not vehicles for a vanity project.”
The men in the image that Ms Deves responded to were Pete Buttigieg, the first openly gay presidential candidate in the history of the Democratic Party, and his partner.
The transport secretary is a member of Joe Biden’s cabinet and was recently ranked by The Washington Post as the second favourite to be the next democratic nominee for president at the 2024 election.
The tweet that she responded to was by Mr Buttigieg on September 5, 2021, announcing the happy news that he and his husband Chasten, 32, had welcomed twins Penelope Rose and Joseph August.
“It’s been wonderful. It’s everything people tell you to expect and more. I think the biggest thing that’s surprised me is just how much joy there is even sometimes in the hard parts,’’ he said.
“It’s just amazing.”
In another social media post she says that reports of trans women inducing lactation to simulate breastfeeding were sick.
“In any other context this would be child sexual abuse and exploitation,‘’ she wrote.
In another new reference to the Holocaust, Ms Deves suggested those that fail to fight the move towards gender fluidity are no different to those that watched the trains go past with Jews to concentration camps.
“I have no doubt these people would imagine themselves to be part of the French Resistance in WWII – but no, they are the villagers who watched the trains go by, ignored the clouds of soot and smoke and joined the Party to get good jobs. They are complicit,’’ she wrote.
Earlier, the Prime Minister declared Australians are “fed up of walking on eggshells” that they might offend someone on controversial debates including trans women and sport and that Australia should stop “cancelling people” for what they think.
“But what I won’t allow, what I won’t allow, is for those who are seeking to cancel Katherine simply because she has a different view to them on the issue of women and girls in sport,’’ he said.
“I think Australians are getting pretty fed-up with having to walk on egg shells everyday because they may or may not say something one day that’s going to upset someone.”
