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Tracey Holmes for The Ticket and ABC Sport

Trans women in sport politicised and weaponised in election campaign as other issues ignored

Scott Morrison and Katherine Deves. (ABC News, Supplied)

The Prime Minister’s hand-picked candidate running in the seat of Warringah is becoming a burden for the Liberal party early on in the election campaign for her claims about transgender women.

Katherine Deves is campaigning to have transgender women banned from women's sport but has had to apologise twice in the past week as further statements and social media posts are unearthed, including a claim that “Half of all males with trans identities are sex offenders” and likening her activism to standing up against the Nazi regime.

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