If Peter Dutton wanted to win the election, he’d weigh in on the side of Canadian dad Chris Elston who is this week fighting for your and my freedom of speech in a Melbourne court room.

Elston, aka Billboard Chris, is challenging the Government’s ‘eSafety’ Commissioner for censoring his 2024 post on X that rightly called out a woman claiming to be a man.

Sadly, Dutton is unlikely to support Elston because he wants to steer clear of  “culture wars”.

But how else can free speech be defended if not by political leaders acting with courage?

Instead, Dutton goes into this election on a unity ticket with Labor, the Greens and the Teals supporting the Sex Discrimination Act which says a woman can have a penis.

On behalf of Dutton and the Coalition, Senator Dave Sharma vowed not to change the SDA, even though it means girls and women’s sports is made unfair and their spaces unsafe.

Neither Dutton nor anyone in the Coalition has repudiated Sharma, despite the promise being made on national television.

So it is left to the courageous Billboard Chris to fight alone in the Administrative Review Tribunal about why it is farcical for an Australian woman to be allowed to identify as a man and then help write World Health Organisation guidelines designed to confuse children.

The woman in question is not any woman.

Teddy Cook (pronouns he/him) is a prominent transgender activist and is on the governing body of Equality Australia, the main LGBTIQA+ political lobby group fighting for the rights of child gender clinics to be allowed to continue to sterilise and mutilate the bodies of children in their futile quest to change their gender.

Equality Australia has also spearheaded the campaign to destroy religious schools in Australia by forcing them to hire staff who do not share parents’ values on marriage and gender.

The Alliance Defending Freedom, a US-based law firm is working with Australia’s Human Rights Law Alliance to defend Chris.

The ADF’s blog reported on the case:

In February 2024, Canadian internet sensation and children’s safety campaigner “Billboard Chris” (Chris Elston), took to U.S. social media platform “X” to share the article, adding the comment:

“This woman (yes, she’s female) is part of a panel of 20 ‘experts’ hired by the @WHO to draft their policy on caring for ‘trans people.”

“People who belong in psychiatric wards are writing the guidelines for people who belong in psychiatric wards.”

In his evidence this week, Elston told the Tribunal that while the first sentence of the tweet was a specific comment to the Daily Mail’s story on Teddy Cook, his second sentence was intended more broadly, to make a political comment about the ideological bias present amongst those in positions of power and influence when it comes to writing gender policy around the world.

Speaking on the witness stand, Elston added:

“It’s damaging to teach children they are born in the wrong body…children are beautiful just as they are. No drugs or scalpels needed.”

Asked further about why he chose to post on this matter, Elston explained: “Because the World Health Organisation has global influence. We should have evidence-based care.”

Under cross-examination, Elston responded, “My goal is not to provoke outrage. My goal is to simply try to educate people, and encourage discussion. I want everyone to think for themselves.”

Freedom of political communication is protected as an implied right under the Australian Constitution.

It has been previously reported that Teddy Cook has had both breasts surgically removed, dresses in kink and advocates for bestiality.

Family First thanks Chris Elston for doing what Labor and Liberal won’t – fight for our free speech so children can be protected from harm and girls and women be given a fair go.

At this election, vote 1 Family First.