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The drag queens who dragged me to the Queensland tribunal have just scored another legal leg-up. 

Some disappointing news came late this afternoon regarding the legal action being waged against me by two anti-free speech LGBTIQA+ drag queens.

Judicial Member Loos of the Queensland Civil and Administrative Appeals Tribunal has allowed fresh evidence against me to be adduced in the up-coming appeal hearings from March 17.

This means affidavits filed against me from two Canadian and one Australian academic will need to be defended by my counsel in the Tribunal.

Corinne Mason is a professor of Women’s and Gender Studies in the Department of Humanities at Mt Royal University.

Among other things she will argue that “Transphobia” (whatever that is) is undergirded by “cissexism”. She helpfully explains in her affidavit that “cissexism is the social system by which gender is assumed to align with the sex designation at the point of birth and where it is assumed that everyone is and/or should be cisgender”.

Seriously? You can’t make this stuff up. But deconstructing what most of us know about the gender of a newborn baby is likely to mean the appeal hearings will spill into three days.

It’s great if you have a taxpayer-funded law firm, something our politicians deny people like you and me.

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Dr Cameron Crookston is a lecturer at the University of British Columbia Okanagan.

In his affidavit he examines “the role drag has played in promoting queer visibility in broader media and popular culture, including through the recent phenomenon of ‘Drag Queen Story Hour’.”

The point of the blog I wrote more than five years ago which landed me in this legal hot water was that sexualised and gender fluid drag role models are dangerous role models for children.

I guess the Tribunal will be hearing from an academic about why mainstream parents are simply displaying bigoted “cissexism” for having reservations about their local council putting on DQSH.

Dr Timothy Willem Jones is a historian from LaTrobe University (at least he’s Australian) and he has contributed to such publications as “A History of LGBTIQA+ Victoria in 100 Places and Objects”.

His affidavit against me argues that using the term “Groomer” which I did not use in my blogs, is akin to calling someone a paedophile – again something I did not do in any of my publications.

After five years, a court case in 2022 in which I was completely vindicated, 18 months of an appeal moving at snail’s pace, I’m hoping and praying commonsense is upheld.

More than that, I’m hoping politicians will see the nonsense of the regime of anti-free speech law they preside over and do something.

I’m not holding my breath and that is why I’m working for a political party called Family First which is seeking to raise parliamentarians with the will and courage to restore some normality, starting with abolishing the term “cissexism”.

We will also cut grants for academics conducting “gender studies”. There are only two.

As mentioned, I am back in the tribunal on March 17 for what will now be a three day appeal hearing.

I am so grateful to so many of you who have donated to my legal defence and if you were one, thank you!

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Originally published at LyleShelton.com.au. Image courtesy of Unsplash.