‘Billboard Chris’ shares details of shocking arrest, issues call to men to take a stand
June 23, 2025
Chris Elston, the activist known for his public opposition to performing gender transition procedures on minors, is sharing details of his recent arrest in Brussels, Belgium.
According to the Christian Post, Elston is known as “Billboard Chris” for his habit of wearing sandwich boards with bold messages about how children cannot consent to puberty blockers and are not born in the wrong body.
Elston said he recently traveled to Brussels to meet with European politicians and to engage in conversations with citizens about so-called “gender affirming care” for minors.
While in Brussels, Elston and Lois McLatchie Miller, senior legal communications officer for ADF International, were detained after a crowd surrounded them and began harassing them.
Elston said that he and Miller met with “many members of the European Parliament, did a lot of media as well” but faced “antagonism, continual abuse and hostility” from people on the street.
The Christian Post reports that Elston said he and Miller’s arrest came after a man attempted to interrupt him and then began following and harassing Miller.
Elston said, “After about half an hour, I got tired of this, and we called the police, because, this is, in my view, criminal harassment of a young woman half his size. By the time police eventually arrived, quite a crowd had gathered — all hostile.”
When police arrived, Elston says they ordered him to take off his sign and to leave the area, ultimately arresting him and Miller for “causing a disturbance.”
Elston explained, “We were handcuffed in that police station and transported to another police station. All of our possessions were logged. We were stripped down to our underwear, our clothes were searched, and then we were put in cells and held until 9 p.m. when we were released.”
In the end, the duo was not charged but Elston is not backing away from his message and promises, “We are taking legal action against them.”
Elston’s advocacy comes on the heels of last week’s U.S. Supreme Court landmark 6-3 ruling in the case of Skrmetti v. United States, which upholds a Tennessee law banning youth with gender dysphoria from being given life-altering surgeries and hormone drugs.
Photo: top, Credit: ADF International