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The NSW Supreme Court has dismissed an appeal by Kirralie Smith and her organisation Binary Australia, upholding a landmark ruling that found they unlawfully vilified two trans women.

The court largely upheld last year's decision from the NSW Local Court, including $95,000 in damages to the victims. The court ordered that Smith and Binary Australia publish a public statement about the decision, which must remain pinned on their social media channels for three months.

In 2025, Smith and Binary Australia were found to have incited hatred towards, serious contempt for and severe ridicule of the two trans women, who she targeted in a newsletter and series of social posts for playing football with their local clubs.

The case remains the first time someone has been found to have unlawfully vilified a person for being trans under NSW law.

This is an important reminder that freedom of expression does not extend to unlawful vilification, and that trans people deserve the same legal protections from hate as everyone else.

Those who target vulnerable communities with hatred and harassment are out of step with the law, and will be held accountable.

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And there you have it ....

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And there was no followup - if a subject stopped attending his clinic there was no attempt to find out why (moved, found a new doctor, whatever). The file was simply closed and marked "grew out of it".
 
Shiftless2 said:
"And there was no followup - if a subject stopped attending his clinic there was no attempt to find out why (moved, found a new doctor, whatever). The file was simply closed and marked "grew out of it"." S2 #1,884
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I'd have preferred marking the closed file "Patient Attendance Autonomously Suspended".
 
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An anti-trans activist told the internet a trans soccer player hospitalized two cis women. In court, she admitted she had no proof, no names, no date, and no idea where it supposedly happened.

The activist is Kirralie Smith, CEO of the anti-LGBTQ+ group Binary Australia. Back in 2023 she posted photos of Riley Dennis, a trans woman playing semi-pro soccer in New South Wales, and called her "a man appropriating womanhood" who had put two cis women in the hospital during a match. On the stand, Smith couldn't say when it happened, where it happened, or who the injured women even were. "I didn't injure anyone. I didn't hospitalize anyone," Dennis said.

Then it got stranger. Smith posted on X that she wanted men to help her deal with "the bloke playing on the women's team." She traveled to the coast with a group of men impersonating trans women, filmed them playing soccer, and used the footage to mock trans players.

Men started showing up to Dennis's actual games and filming her. "All of a sudden I just felt like there were a thousand eyes on me," she said. She couldn't get a spot in her league the next season, and she believes the attention Smith created is why.

A judge called Smith's behavior "objectively threatening" and "disturbing." A court then found her guilty of unlawful vilification, the first time anyone has been found to have unlawfully vilified a person for being trans under NSW law. It rejected her claim that this was just political speech.

On July 24, the NSW Supreme Court threw out her appeal. Smith and Binary now owe $95,000 in damages to Dennis and a second targeted player, Stephanie Blanch, within 28 days. They also have to publish a court-approved apology and keep it pinned on their social channels for three months.

"It didn't pass," Dennis said.

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This food bank's cupboards are empty - wonder why?

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A Colorado school district just SUED the Trump administration rather than strip protections from its transgender students, with $50 MILLION a year in funding on the line.

Jeffco Public Schools, the state's second largest district, filed suit Tuesday in federal court in Colorado. The Education Department's Office for Civil Rights had accused Jeffco of allowing up to 61 boys onto girls' sports rosters. The district says those names belonged to trainers, managers and mascots, as Chalkbeat's Erica Meltzer first reported.

One of the corrective actions the Office for Civil Rights demanded: that Jeffco issue a public statement adopting the administration's definition of sex and agreeing with its reading of Title IX. The lawsuit calls that a First Amendment violation.

The department also sent a letter of impasse threatening enforcement before the 90-day window for negotiating an agreement had even run out. Its investigation of Jeffco was built on a limited review of documents rather than in-depth interviews, a departure from how these cases were previously handled.

"Jeffco has been informed by the (Office for Civil Rights) that continuing to follow Colorado law could place more than $50 million in annual federal funding at risk. At the same time, it is not an option for the district to knowingly violate state law," interim superintendent Rob Stein said. "This has placed the district in an impossible position."

Colorado's Anti-Discrimination Act requires schools to accommodate students consistent with their gender identity. The Supreme Court's June decision said states may bar transgender students from sports teams matching their gender identity.

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Kim Davis, the Christian bigot who refused to sign same-sex marriage licenses, still owes $565,000 in legal fees.

She's paid $0.

Now, a new lawsuit says she transferred her share of $400,000+ in inherited property to relatives—and denied it under oath.

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A 10-year-old trans girl sat down in front of a room of Texas senators and told them she does not like spending her free time asking adults to make good choices. She was there because of a bill that would put her mom in prison for taking her to the doctor.

Kai Shappley, a fourth grader who loves math, science, ballet, her cats and Dolly Parton, testified before the Texas Senate Committee on State Affairs on Monday, April 12, against Senate Bills 1311 and 1646. SB 1311 would bar doctors from providing gender-affirming care to anyone under 18. SB 1646 would redefine a parent consenting to puberty blockers or hormones for their own child as child abuse, a felony carrying up to ten years in prison, with the child placed in foster care.

She told the senators she has been explaining herself since she was three or four years old. "It makes me sad that some politicians use trans kids like me to get votes from people who hate me just because I exist."

Republican state Sen. Charles Perry, the bill's lead sponsor, said his religious beliefs motivated his support. Kai answered him directly: "God made me. God loves me for who I am, and God does not make mistakes."

Then she defended her mother, Kimberly Shappley, a registered nurse. "My mom has been giving everything she has to stand up for me." She asked the committee to stop, said it was never too late to turn it around, and told the lawmakers who defend kids like her that by the time she reaches college they will be celebrated in the history books.

She was the first trans child to testify. When she finished, no member of the committee asked her a single question. "Seriously, none of you want to know more about me?" she asked before leaving the stand.

Within days, her mother pulled her off social media entirely. One comment left on the 10-year-old's YouTube channel read, "dumb idiot get murdered you disgusting little brat." Amber Briggle, a Denton mom who testified at the same hearing about her trans son, filed a police report over threatening voice messages.

Both bills ultimately failed.

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