Prime Minister Scott Morrison says he will not permit Katherine Deves to be silenced amid calls to dump the candidate for the Sydney seat of Warringah.
Ms Deves has drawn criticism for now-deleted social media posts, which included likening her lobbying to cease transgender athletes from competing in ladies's sport to standing up towards the Holocaust.
Mr Morrison stated Ms Deves "regrets" the feedback she has made.
"That's not how she is proposing to go ahead in highlighting the crucial situation that she has been a robust campaigner on," he stated.
"She is a girl, standing up for girls and ladies and their entry to honest sport on this nation."
"I am not going to permit her to be silenced, I am not going to permit her to be pushed apart because the pile-on is available in to try to silence her," Mr Morrison stated.
"I will arise along with her, my workforce is standing up along with her, and we'll make it possible for she will not be silenced."
Liberal Social gathering state MP Felicity Wilson stated ladies "want actual advocates for our security and alternative" in an opinion piece within the Sydney Morning Herald.
"By some means we discover ourselves in a scenario the place nationwide media consideration is at the moment centered on a false ally," Ms Wilson stated.
"In my group, I'm being requested to vote for somebody who's utilizing equality for girls as a skinny veil to disguise offensive assaults on transgender folks – a gaggle of individuals clamouring for their very own security and alternative."
Ms Wilson is one in all a number of Liberal Social gathering members who've commented on Ms Deve's social media posts.
Senator Anne Ruston earlier referred to as Ms Deves feedback "completely unacceptable" however backed away from strikes to dump her.
In the meantime, Minister for Ladies Marise Payne has refused to endorse Ms Deves.
Mr Morrison stated in New South Wales he needed to make some decisions in regards to the collection of 12 candidates together with the Premier and the previous President of the Liberal Social gathering.
"Half of them had been ladies," he stated.
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"I selected the lady who put herself by way of the solicitor's administration board, who stood up for the ladies and ladies in sport, and who's elevating three of her personal ladies in that voters proper now, dwelling in Manly.
"I believe she is going to make an awesome Member of Parliament, she has discovered in her advocacy and her non-public life the higher methods to do issues to take issues ahead as a member of parliament.
"I do not suppose she needs to be silenced as a result of she has views that do not agree with others."