The Sydney Northern Beaches candidate, who likened her stance against transgender inclusion in sports to standing up against Nazis, says the social media platform was not the place to have the 'complex, nuanced' debate.
in which she likened her push to stop transgender people from competing in women's sports to standing up to the Nazis, described transgender children as "surgically mutilated and sterilised," and declared surrogacy was a "human rights violation".
When asked to reflect on the controversy caused by her comments Ms Deves said she had been "chastened" by the reaction to them. "I recognise that trying to prosecute arguments about complex, nuanced and difficult subjects…. it should not take place on a platform that propagates offense and division and hurt," she said."I recognise that the way I prosecuted those arguments was not conducive to proper, reasonable debate."
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