It comes after transgender American swimmer Lia Thomas spoke out against critics and said she intends to keep competing, with the ultimate goal of reaching the Olympics.
Thomas became the first transgender woman to claim a national title in swimming after she won the women's 500-yard freestyle at the NCAA championships in Atlanta. Picture: Getty Ms Deves – who was defeated by incumbent independent Zali Steggall for the Sydney seat of Warringah - said it comes down to an issue of fairness and equality in sport.
In a number of now-deleted posts on social media, Ms Deves said she was “triggered” by the pride flag and described transgender children as “mutilated and sterilised”.
Shame on the Olympic comity,they complain about steroids but allow this s*it.
Hmm who was it that demanded inclusion and condemned toxic masculinity. Oh yeah all the women well ladies or whatever you call yourself you now have your wish. How dem apples tasting eh.
That picture is of a man, and men should not be playing in women sport! Period. Which they don’t have!
All females should pull out in protest..
Lia Thomas is a bloke not a woman. Women do not have a penis!! This crap is so outrageous, real females should compete against real females not pretend females with a penis!! Shame on these minorities that dictate the world should tell them to piss off.
Time for the other actual women competitors to take a stand and not swim against 'Lia' and her type!!
XX chromosomes = FEMALE XY chromosomes = MALE NEVER has XX 'transed' into XY .... or the reverse
You are 100 percent correct, this transgender nonsense in sport is complete and utter nonsense. They should create Transgender sport and they can play in their own teams. That is fairness!!!
Easy way to fix this, allow women to kick each other in the groin during competition.
Science has stated that men will always be men no matter what medications they take. They testosterone is always present, they will always have more strength and size no matter what.
And again she is 💯 correct biological women need to start boycotting and just not race against them
Give it a 🦴
Well then, that decision will be in the hands of the International Olympic Committee rather than a RWNJ proto-fascist seeking someone to “other-hate”, and divide society for their self-promotional purposes… ScammoTheMarketer’s methods are done for now…
There's no equality and fairness on transgender joining the female sports. Period. If you want such thing, then make an Olympics just for these people
Sorry but trans athletes shouldn’t compete. If they do and if they win, then the medal & time shouldn’t be awarded.
Wonder how pure The Crusader really is? Ex-clients with stories to tell? She looks plastic - something seems very inauthentic about this woman.
The person on the left is a woman. The person on the right has a physiological disorder and thinks they are a woman but they are not a woman. The end.
Please stop referring that thing as a her ok it’s a male and a cheat to boot
Ok, is it a good thing or bad thing? One has an opinion but really can't comment because I am no expert. Which raises to me the question, why do sky look to Katherine for her opinion? Surely not simply because she was an ex liberal candidate. That would not be news, just noise.
Stop referring to that thing as a her it’s a man ok
Murdoch media, just recently learned that it’s losing its grip on Australian politics. 😂
The only woman here is the one on the left and she’s beautiful.
And the electorate said we dont care what Deves has to say!
Attention SkyNews AUSTRALIA You may have forgotten, since you're crud churned out of the same septic pit as Murdoch gutter-muck in the US, but we are NOT America. We do NOT need every marginal or niche culture issue blown-up, politicised and weaponised into BS propaganda auspol
Thank you deves_katherine for having a spine & willing to speak the truth. William Thomas is a man and should be competing with men.
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Why should we care what Deves thinks?
Go Katherine where are all the other women in Australia they should all be behind you have much courage never back down keep pushing forward we will win
Deves being made into a Sky super hero next Sky after dark
That photo of Deves looks like it’s from a horror film. Appropriate.
afl2277 I don't think she understands the meaning of the word fairness.
Everyone keeps talking about this. How about just asking the IOC if they will let her compete.
Should have a transgender Olimpic for them.
Is this a matter for government?
Can they not have a TRANS TEAM only against other TRANS. I am shocked that these so call medical professionals took so long to realise. But i guess they were frighten of being sued for discrimination. What do they teach them in medical school?
How about getting an opinion from the institute of sport or swimming Aust? Former liberal candidate who lost in a colossal way says…. Not hitting the mark
So full of hatred. RW of the LNP playing the long game for 2025 and beyond. Scary stuff.
the sporting bodies will deal with this:
Hasn't been an issue for the many years they've been able to compete at the Olympics. I'm only aware of one gold medal (in weightlifting), so it seems that the sport's organisations rules on testosterone have properly level the playing field with needed your pearl clutching.
If a tree falls in a forest, it would have more viewers than sky news.
A petite little thing!
This News Corp agenda was a complete failure at the elections. Katherine Deves and News Corp are starting sound ridiculous on this subject...a real lack interest in moving forward.
Let him swim the race by himself. I don’t know these girls are standing at starting blocks with him. If all the girls stop racing against him this shit will go away. The girls need to start taking a stand.
It's a short jump towards banning black folks from sports. 'They're physically superior! It's unfair!' 😅
She is irrelevant- had you not noticed she didn’t win a single booth in the electorate she contested. But hey - nothing like a fawning lapdog (Sky) to stir division and hate.
You mean little Miss QANON Barbie. Some crazed rambles to read on a cold night
Can’t wait til the trans men take menstrual leave too!
I heard she was a he given she has balls to go and work for a propaganda company that is so aligned to misinformation
Did Katherine say anything about how she lost 5 Liberal seats?
It creates a unfair playing field
desperately trying to create drama to support failed Murdoch Party rhetoric. Not news just propaganda.
Yawn, it's not like sport is important, a creation to quell the masses from crap government.
Katherine Deves is right! There is no such thing as trans gender! You are biologically male or female. Period! Which so called trans pretend women don’t have! Only a prostate and making testosterone! We must reject this abnormal BS!
Yet she wonders why she didn't get elected
Nobody puts any value on your hot takes Kath. Time to disappear now.
The fact that Katherine Deves has practically lived at the Sky News studio since the election shows how hopelessly out of touch you are with mainstream Australia. That's not saying Lia Thomas should compete at the Olympics. It's a complex issue that medical experts should answer
Katherine Deves is a dead horse & Sky News has chained itself to her rotting carcass; I'd hate to know what the office smells like right now
Former liberal candidate! It should say one of the many pig headed mistakes Morrison made to help to the LNP loss the election.
it still blows my mind people think its ok for Men to compete in Women's Sport.
Katherine who?