Chris Elston, better known as “Billboard Chris,” was assaulted multiple times at Portland State University while wearing a “children cannot consent to puberty blockers” sign on campus. Other students resorted to shouting profanities and held loudspeakers to the ears of Chris and YouTuber James Klug, as they attempted to discuss the realities of transition surgery for children with PSU students.
The first activist to become aggressive was a self-proclaimed transsexual who used his bike to block Chris and Klug from speaking to students. He began singing loudly to drown out their conversations and repeatedly tried to push, shove and grab Chris’s phone.
As the crowd got bigger the bike activist began to get more aggressive, trying to falsely accuse Chris of assault, before reaching for Chris’s phone and throwing it across the courtyard where Chris was standing.
“Let him go,” a trans activist stated, ultimately helping the assaulter escape.
After this encounter, another student became irate after reading the signs and began screaming profanities in an attempt to once again shut down the conversation.
“You guys f****** suck so bad,” the student shouted, “You should move to a cave and die ’cause you’re an idiot,” he continued. When pressed by Chris as to why the student was so upset, the student answered, “You’re an ignorant hateful little s***.”
Campus police looked on as the assaults took place throughout the day. After the trans bike activist attacked, the police simply stated, “We’ll talk to him.” Another assailant threw water on Chris and Klug and walked away without any repercussions.
In a secretly recorded video, the same officers hold a conversation with another student who admits she wanted to “swing at Chris,” ultimately asking them what they could do if she falsely planted drugs on them. “You tryna plant some evidence?” one of the campus police jokingly asks.
PSU’s Queer Resource Center had already put out a statement warning students that activists who “are trained to stay calm and within their rights” were planning on visiting the campus, stating that coloring, cotton candy, and temporary tattoos would be made available to students who feel unsafe.
However, it seems the students were unable to control their emotions as they spent the day shutting down the speech of others who had differing views from them.
