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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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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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U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon appeared on Fox News with Maria Bartiromo to discuss federal investigations into school districts accused of hiding students’ social gender transitions from parents. The ongoing political and legal dispute cente
U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon appeared on Fox News with Maria Bartiromo to discuss federal investigations into school districts accused of hiding students’ social gender transitions from...
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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".
I'd have preferred marking the closed file "Patient Attendance Autonomously Suspended".
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That wouldn't have provided evidence supporting the claim they wanted to prove.
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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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West Virginia pastor Alvin Christian says God’s Store House Food Bank in Bluefield has empty freezers after he rejected food offered to him by organizations that support LGBTQ rights. Now the...
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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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