No child has ever been born in the wrong body. It’s a simple message—the true ones usually are. Yet in our muddied times, this statement has become so controversial so as to prompt a Canadian father to lay down a stable career in finance to take to the streets wearing a sandwich board to make this, and other similar proclamations of basic truth, known to the world.
Nicknamed “Billboard Chris,” this truth-teller has become an international internet sensation based on his wearable statements that “children cannot consent to puberty blockers” and a “Dad” is “an adult human male who protects his kids from gender ideology.” The conversations sparked by his boards on the street often go viral, captured and amplified on Twitter/X. These are the conversations we need to be having—advocating for kids, standing up for parents, and combatting the insidious effects of gender ideology, one billboard at a time.
For the last four years, Billboard Chris has been out on the public street playing a vital role in challenging gender ideology, which is wreaking worldwide havoc on our children. Now, Australian authorities are seeking to shut him down online in a blatant exercise of aggressive state overreach.
Earlier this year, Chris took to Twitter/X to express concern about the appointment of a radical activist to the World Health Organisation’s “panel of experts” on global transgender policy. Thousands of miles away in an office in Australia, an unelected ‘eSafety Commissioner’ decided that Chris’s message of concern should not be heard by anyone else, demanding X take down the post.
Chris’ concern was far from unwarranted. The WHO-appointed activist in question, Teddy Cook, has a record of publicly promoting deviant sexual practices, including everything from bestiality to bondage, to drugs and nudism. Cook was appointed to a panel set to shape public policy on transgenderism across the world—directly impacting confused and vulnerable children. What dad wouldn’t be alarmed?
X refused to take down the post, but when Australian officials escalated the demand to a take-down order, the platform responded by geo-blocking it in Australia and then proceeding to sue.
Billboard Chris, with the support of ADF International and the Australian Human Rights Law Alliance, and alongside X, is appealing the violation of his human right to peacefully share his convictions.
While shocking, this act of state sponsored censorship is unsurprising. Across the world, governments are criminalising individuals who peacefully exercise their basic right to free speech, in particular in the digital space.
Take Mexico. Former congressman Rodrigo Iván Cortés and sitting congressman Gabriel Quadri were convicted of ‘gender-based political violence,’ and placed on an offenders’ register, for Twitter/X posts. For expressing their views on biological reality, both were ordered to publish a court-written apology on Twitter/X every day for 30 days, 3 times a day, as a form of public humiliation. ADF International is seeking justice for both men at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.
Or see Finland. Parliamentarian Päivi Räsänen, a former government minister and grandmother, is currently being prosecuted before the Supreme Court, having been criminally charged for ‘hate speech’ for a 2019 Bible-verse tweet. She was charged under the Finnish criminal code’s section on “War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity,” carrying a maximum sentence of 2 years imprisonment. ADF International is backing her legal defence.
Meanwhile, at the international level, the European Commission is advancing efforts to make ‘hate speech’ an EU crime, on the same legal level as trafficking and terrorism. Initiatives such as the EU Code of Practice on Disinformation could have significant implications for how governments police speech, especially as European Commission VP Věra Jourová singled out X for “the largest ratio of mis/disinformation posts.” The Commission and Musk now are wrapped up in an acrimonious legal dispute as they fight over the boundaries of freedom of tweet.
From Australia to Finland, and most everywhere in between, age-old ‘blasphemy’ laws are back, now in modern form. This time around, they’re called ‘hate speech’ laws, but they are similarly weaponised by governments to punish those who speak out against the dominant orthodoxies of the day. Billboard Chris has run afoul of these orthodoxies by taking a stand in defense of biological reality, seeking to safeguard children everywhere. Now is the time for all concerned with the protection of children to rally around Billboard Chris, and champion the right of every person to live and speak the truth.
Truth, One Billboard at a Time
No child has ever been born in the wrong body. It’s a simple message—the true ones usually are. Yet in our muddied times, this statement has become so controversial so as to prompt a Canadian father to lay down a stable career in finance to take to the streets wearing a sandwich board to make this, and other similar proclamations of basic truth, known to the world.
Nicknamed “Billboard Chris,” this truth-teller has become an international internet sensation based on his wearable statements that “children cannot consent to puberty blockers” and a “Dad” is “an adult human male who protects his kids from gender ideology.” The conversations sparked by his boards on the street often go viral, captured and amplified on Twitter/X. These are the conversations we need to be having—advocating for kids, standing up for parents, and combatting the insidious effects of gender ideology, one billboard at a time.
For the last four years, Billboard Chris has been out on the public street playing a vital role in challenging gender ideology, which is wreaking worldwide havoc on our children. Now, Australian authorities are seeking to shut him down online in a blatant exercise of aggressive state overreach.
Earlier this year, Chris took to Twitter/X to express concern about the appointment of a radical activist to the World Health Organisation’s “panel of experts” on global transgender policy. Thousands of miles away in an office in Australia, an unelected ‘eSafety Commissioner’ decided that Chris’s message of concern should not be heard by anyone else, demanding X take down the post.
Chris’ concern was far from unwarranted. The WHO-appointed activist in question, Teddy Cook, has a record of publicly promoting deviant sexual practices, including everything from bestiality to bondage, to drugs and nudism. Cook was appointed to a panel set to shape public policy on transgenderism across the world—directly impacting confused and vulnerable children. What dad wouldn’t be alarmed?
X refused to take down the post, but when Australian officials escalated the demand to a take-down order, the platform responded by geo-blocking it in Australia and then proceeding to sue.
Billboard Chris, with the support of ADF International and the Australian Human Rights Law Alliance, and alongside X, is appealing the violation of his human right to peacefully share his convictions.
While shocking, this act of state sponsored censorship is unsurprising. Across the world, governments are criminalising individuals who peacefully exercise their basic right to free speech, in particular in the digital space.
Take Mexico. Former congressman Rodrigo Iván Cortés and sitting congressman Gabriel Quadri were convicted of ‘gender-based political violence,’ and placed on an offenders’ register, for Twitter/X posts. For expressing their views on biological reality, both were ordered to publish a court-written apology on Twitter/X every day for 30 days, 3 times a day, as a form of public humiliation. ADF International is seeking justice for both men at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.
Or see Finland. Parliamentarian Päivi Räsänen, a former government minister and grandmother, is currently being prosecuted before the Supreme Court, having been criminally charged for ‘hate speech’ for a 2019 Bible-verse tweet. She was charged under the Finnish criminal code’s section on “War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity,” carrying a maximum sentence of 2 years imprisonment. ADF International is backing her legal defence.
Meanwhile, at the international level, the European Commission is advancing efforts to make ‘hate speech’ an EU crime, on the same legal level as trafficking and terrorism. Initiatives such as the EU Code of Practice on Disinformation could have significant implications for how governments police speech, especially as European Commission VP Věra Jourová singled out X for “the largest ratio of mis/disinformation posts.” The Commission and Musk now are wrapped up in an acrimonious legal dispute as they fight over the boundaries of freedom of tweet.
From Australia to Finland, and most everywhere in between, age-old ‘blasphemy’ laws are back, now in modern form. This time around, they’re called ‘hate speech’ laws, but they are similarly weaponised by governments to punish those who speak out against the dominant orthodoxies of the day. Billboard Chris has run afoul of these orthodoxies by taking a stand in defense of biological reality, seeking to safeguard children everywhere. Now is the time for all concerned with the protection of children to rally around Billboard Chris, and champion the right of every person to live and speak the truth.
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