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NSW Supreme Court dismissed almost all of Kirralie Smith's and Binary Australia's appeal against the first findings of transgender vilification under NSW law (Smith v Blanch; Smith v Dennis [2026] NSWSC 879). The court confirmed the pair unlawfully vilified two transgender women who wanted nothing more than to play football with their teammates.
A short, raw confession about staying silent during the AIDS crisis and church debates while closeted, and the guilt of having hidden.
Responds to an op-ed on trans teens by recounting psychoanalysis’s harmful history with LGBTIQA+ people and conversion therapy.
A Mardi Gras play on NSW gay-hate murders prompts a personal reflection on Adelaide and Sydney’s history of anti-gay violence.
Argues the Israel Folau saga compounds cumulative trauma in the LGBTIQA+ community, drawing parallels with other traumatised groups.
A rebuttal to a former chaplain’s defence of Israel Folau, drawing on homophobia-in-sport research and the author’s own gay Christian experience.