Katherine Deves claims key role in controversial bill to ban trans women from women’s sport

Katherine Deves revealed at an event in February that she had worked with Liberal senator Claire Chandler on the controversial ‘Save Women’s Sport’ bill. Photograph: Liberal party

The Liberal party’s controversial candidate for the seat of Warringah, Katherine Deves, claimed a key role in developing legislation to exclude trans women from women’s sport that has been slammed by equality advocates as “divisive and unnecessary”.

Speaking at an event organised by a group called the Coalition for Biological Reality on the issue of “gender identity in law” in Hobart in February, Deves claimed she had worked with the Tasmanian senator Claire Chandler on developing the controversial “Save Women’s Sport” bill.