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Chris Elston, known as Billboard Chris, is a Canadian anti-transgender activist. [1] [2] [3] [4]
Elston, who is based in British Columbia, Canada, [5] travels to different locations and wears sandwich boards or signs with messages and then engages with individuals in public conversations about the subject. [6] [7] He claims to have been frequently assaulted as a result of these activities. [1] One such sign read that "Children cannot consent to puberty blockers", [7] although access to puberty blockers for transgender youth in Australia is supported by four medical organizations – the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, Royal Australian College of General Practitioners, Australian Endocrine Society, and AusPATH. [8]
In 2020, Elston and another person paid to have a large billboard put up above Hastings Street in Vancouver which was in support of author J.K. Rowling's views about gender identity. [9] [10]
In June 2023, Elston was a speaker at the Moms for Liberty National Summit and moderated a session about "gender ideology" and how to fight it. [11]
In June 2025, Elston and Lois McLatchie Miller, a Scottish woman who works for the Alliance Defending Freedom, were arrested in Brussels. The two were accused of causing disruptive behavior while holding signs that read "Children are never born in the wrong body." [12] [13] [14]
In March 2024, the Australian online regulator eSafety ordered that X remove a post by Elston about an Australian trans man who is employed as an LGBTQ health expert. The post was a link to a Daily Mail article about the person and his role in the World Health Organization. Elston stated in the post that "people who belong in psychiatric wards are writing the guidelines for people who belong in psychiatric wards." [2]
Determining this posting to be cyber-abuse and therefore in breach of Australia's Online Safety Act, the Australian regulator declared that the posting had misgendered him, mocked his gender identity and equated transgender identity with a psychiatric condition. [2] Consequently, the United States Department of State issued a statement in support of Elston. Elston's case was funded by Alliance Defending Freedom International, the international subsidiary of the conservative organization Alliance Defending Freedom, and in Australia by the Human Rights Law Alliance, which was founded by the Christian advocacy organization Australian Christian Lobby. [15]
In July 2025, a tribunal in Melbourne overturned the government order to remove the post. [16]
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