I'm facing indefinite litigation.
As many of you will know, I have been embroiled in more than four years of litigation after two LGBTIQA+ drag queens sued me.
My alleged crime was to write on my blog that, in the context of them reading to little children at a so-called Drag Queen Story Time event in January 2020, they were dangerous role models.
I do not resile from this view.
They are suing me because they want me to publicly apologise, delete six blog posts which expose the harms of LGBTIQA+ drag queens to little children and pay them $20,000.
I have no intention of doing any of this.
With the support of my donor-funded law firm, the Human Rights Law Alliance, and with much additional pro-bono assistance, we won the case after a three-day trial in November of 2022.
However, with the assistance of their mainly taxpayer-funded law firm, the LGBTI Legal Service in South Brisbane, the drag queens appealed against my win in August 2023 which means that it is likely that the whole case needs to be run again at a higher level.
Since then, the case has been the subject of incredible delay so that over a year on, I am still in an uncertain position.
Today a directions hearing was held in the Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal do determine a hearing date as to whether the drag queens should be allowed to introduce additional evidence against me and to whether or not they should be granted leave to appeal.
Because of a massive backlog in QCAT, this hearing to decide if there will be an actual appeal hearing will probably not be held until well into 2025.
Who knows when the appeal hearing itself will be held.
The wheels of justice grind exceedingly slow and the process LGBTIQA+ activists have privileged access to because of flawed legislation means that this very process is the punishment for people like me.
It is designed to send a warning to others to keep quiet, or else.
It is unAustralian.
There are no politicians, that I am aware of, willing to challenge these unjust laws.
Since the introduction of same-sex marriage anti-discrimination and anti-vilification laws have been weaponised against many of us who have dared to challenge LGBTIQA+ assumptions on gender and radical sexual expressionism towards children.
So, I remained embroiled in what seems indefinite legislation.
The case has already cost hundreds of thousands of dollars and a team of dedicated HRLA lawyers continue to work on my behalf, never having asked a cent from me.
Like most Australians, I do not have the means to fight this kind of politicised lawfare.
In the initial stages of my case back in 2020-21, crowd funding through my website from hundreds of generous mum and dad supporters raised $200,000, which I transferred to HRLA.
HRLA donors have generously funded the rest of my legal costs.
There is no end in sight to the action being waged against me, but if free speech is to be preserved in Australia, cases like this must be fought.
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