Katherine Deves has backtracked from her previous apologies for describing transgender children as 'surgically mutilated and sterilised'. Prime Minister Scott Morrison's 'captain's pick' for Sydney's Northern Beaches seat of Warringah told Sky News on Monday the descriptions she had used were the 'correct terminology'. Katherine Deves has backtracked from her previous apologies for describing transgender children as 'surgically mutilated and …
A civil war has broken out within the Liberal Party after Tony Abbott backed a candidate's rants on transgender people amid growing pressure on the Prime Minister to dump her. High profile Liberal Matt Kean, the New South Wales treasurer, publicly challenged Scott Morrison to dis-endorse Liberal candidate for Warringah, Katherine Deves, following a string of controversies. Katherine Deves, considered …