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.

Senior Coalition figures continue to double down on their commitment to radical LGBTIQA+ ideology.

The latest was Senator Dave Sharma, who on Sunday night told the Danica & James show on Sky news that the Coalition would not amend the Sex Discrimination Act to restore the biological reality of two genders in Australian Law.

In 2013 both Labor and the Coalition amended the SDA to allow biological males to identify was women and vice versa and for it to be illegal to discriminate against someone based on their new gender.

Last week Donald Trump signed an Executive Order to say the US federal government now only recognised two genders.

Sharma told Danica and James he believed in protecting girls and women’s sports but would not support amending the SDA, which means it would remain illegal to protect girls from the encroachment of males in their sport.

Sadly Peter Dutton also said last week the Coalition had no plans to restore the definition of biological gender to law, leaving mainstream Australians and women’s groups gobsmacked.

Here’s the transcript of the interview with Dave Sharma:

JAMES MACPHERSON: I've got a very tricky question for you that politicians right around our country have been struggling with all week. I want to see how you go. The official policy of the US government is now that there are only two genders, male and female. So, I wanted to ask you, as a high-profile Liberal Party Senator three questions. How many genders are there? What are they? And will that be reflected in government policy should you win the election?

SENATOR SHARMA: Well, in my view, there are two genders, male and female. And in my view, the policy on this is settled. I mean, we've got our guidelines on this in the Australian government go back to 2013 when the Sex Discrimination Act was amended. My view is if it's not broke, don't try and fix it. I think, uh, you know, I'm watching what they're doing in the US with interest, but I don't have any proposals to change how we go about this in Australia.

JAMES MACPHERSON: So the coalition won't embrace the pro women's rights movement and push back against trans ideology?

SENATOR SHARMA: I think our priorities are addressing, you know, people's cost of living, uh, you know, power bills, grocery prices, electricity prices. I mean, fundamentally we think the most important duty of our government is to keep people safe, give them an opportunity to get ahead and that's what we'll be focused on.

JAMES MACPHERSON: Just before I let you go, I've got to push back slightly because there'd be a lot of ladies watching saying, well, our priority is the safety of our daughters, fairness in girls sport. Is that not a priority for at least half the population?

SENATOR SHARMA: Oh, I think, I think those are important issues. Uh, I think, you know, making sure that, you know, women are safe, whether they're playing sport or they're in correctional facilities or, uh, anywhere else is an important consideration. And I think we always need to make sure we keep that first and foremost, that people's freedom to identify how they want to in terms of their gender does not impinge upon the rights and safety of others. Now, that's always going to be a live issue, but I don't think we need to be headlining a policy area on this when I think Australia's under so many other pressures.

Sadly Labor, the Greens and the Coalition are on a unity ticket when it comes to defending the lie about gender that is baked into the Sex Discrimination Act.

Family First’s Senate team of Katie Lush (Qld), Lyle Shelton (NSW), Bernie Finn (Vic) and Christopher Brohier (SA) is fighting for a return to commonsense on gender.

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