(LifeSiteNews) — An Australian woman’s rights activist has been found guilty of “vilifying” male athletes competing in women’s sports and now faces up to 200,000 Australian dollars in penalties.
Reduxx reports that Kirralie Smith, spokeswoman for the organization Binary Australia, was told by a local court of New South Wales (NSW) she “unlawfully vilified” two men playing soccer on women’s teams. Smith had stressed that men have unfair advantages in women’s sports and highlighted that opposing players had suffered severe injuries because of that.
Binary Australia is an organization campaigning for exclusive women’s sports without gender-confused men.
The court stated in its judgement that Smith and Binary Australia “sought to evoke fear in the reader regarding the fact that [Blanch], who is described as a man / male / bloke is playing in a women’s team (and men playing in women’s sports generally).”
The two men, Justin “Riley” Dennis and Nicholas “Stephanie” Blanch, were awarded payouts for “damages” to their reputation that could be a maximum of $100,000 each. In addition, Blanch and Dennis demanded that Smith and Binary Australia issue a public apology and “develop a policy aimed at eliminating unlawful discrimination and transgender vilification in relation to any future public acts.”
The court will decide on the extent of any punitive measures later in the year, with November being the expected time horizon.
According to Reduxx, the Apprehended Violence Orders (AVO) filed against Smith and Binary Australia by the two gender-confused men center around comments on social media where Smith highlighted that Blanch and Dennis were men playing on women’s soccer teams and that they put the female players in danger.
One of the posts mentioned in the AVO is a Facebook status from March 2023, in which Smith reported on alleged injuries two female players sustained in a match against the teams that featured biological men.
“I have cried a lot today,” Smith wrote. “Last night I was contacted by people in Sydney. It is alleged that two female soccer players were hospitalised over the weekend after being forced to play against a male appropriating womanhood. Trying to get hold of the video. Football Australia have received more than 2,000 complaints about the men in teams such as Wingham FC and some Sydney first grade teams.”
“No one is excluding trans,” she continued. “We simply want female sex-based services and spaces. The trans can play according to biology or on a mixed or trans team.”
Smith noted that “the top goal scorer in the NSW Women’s League One First Grade soccer is male,” referring to Dennis. “Football NSW fail to safeguard women and girls for the sake of men’s feelings!”
Football NSW introduced a “Gender Diversity Policy” in 2023, allowing gender-confused individuals to choose a team that “best suits the Player’s Gender Identity.”
In a match on May 21 that year, Dennis injured a female player after launching her toward a metal fence with an aggressive tackle while both were chasing the ball.
One of the teams playing in the NSW women’s soccer league, The Flying Bats, proudly presents itself as “the biggest LGBTQIA+ women’s and non-binary football club in the world.” The team featured five male athletes during the 2024 season, leading to them dominating the competition that season.
Smith has been censored repeatedly online due to Australia’s policies forbidding “discrimination” against gender-confused individuals. In February 2023, her Facebook page was removed after a complaint by Australia’s “eSafety Commissioner.” Her page had more than 47,000 followers at the time.
The Australian women’s rights activist already had to appear in court ten times to defend herself for referring to gender-confused males as men.