In the same video, Deves also speculated that Page, who had just come out as transgender at the time, was “paid” to do so. “Of course it was [a stunt],” she claimed. “Her star had waned quite some time ago and now suddenly she’s back in the limelight.
“This is just my personal speculation. I’m very cynical, but I think: ‘Was she paid to do that?’ There’s so much money behind this, sometimes I wonder when people do and say things, you think, ‘That’s extraordinary, where did that come from?’
Elliot Page was interviewed by Oprah Winfrey for an episode of The Oprah Conversation.Credit:Apple TV+
“I’ve seen things on Twitter, I can’t verify that it’s actually happened, where people have said, ‘Oh yes, they wanted me to say this, they wanted me to consult, and they were prepared to pay me.’ So you’ve got to wonder.”
Deves has been under fire for a week over her commentary about transgender issues, such as calling trans children “surgically mutilated”, saying she was “triggered” by the rainbow flag and likening her fight against gender ideology to the Nazi resistance.
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She has apologised multiple times for her “language” and for any hurt caused, but not for her views, saying she stands by her fight for the safety of women and girls in sport. Morrison has also backed Deves, describing the outrage as a “pile-on”.
“This is a woman standing up for women and girls in sport. That’s her primary issue that she has raised,” Morrison said on Saturday. “There are ways that she has expressed this in the past that she no longer feels comfortable with.”
Deves was selected as the Liberal candidate for Warringah by Morrison himself, along with NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet and former party president Chris McDiven, amid an internal stoush in NSW over candidate preselections.
NSW Treasurer and moderate faction leader Matt Kean has called for Deves to be dumped as the Warringah candidate.
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Warringah MP Zali Steggall said she had no doubt Morrison was “using this candidate to deviate from actual issues”.
“He is seeking to divide and vilify our trans children,” she told ABC’s RN Breakfast on Monday. “This is a politicised weaponisation of a side issue.”
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Liberal candidate Deves invoked stolen generations in deleted trans tweets
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