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The Sex Discrimination Act Must Be Restored to Protect Women — Real Women

9 December 2025

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The Sex Discrimination Act must be restored to its original purpose: protect women — real women.

Did you know Australia no longer has a biological definition of ‘man’ and ‘woman’ in federal law?

No wonder our nation is confused.

This isn’t an abstract legal glitch. It’s a cultural earthquake and we’re all living in the aftershocks. When the law deletes biological reality, it reflects something deeper: a nation rejecting God and rejecting truth.

Scripture is clear: God created humanity in his image; male and female. He designed our bodies with purpose, with complementarity, and with the ability to bring forth life. This isn’t a ‘Christian belief’; it’s a universal human and scientific reality.

Only a male and a female can create life. No amount of surgery, hormones, or legal word-games can change that.

Desire in Place of Design

But biological sex is inconvenient for a culture driven by desire instead of design. So the modern world fights God’s created order — fighting nature itself. The result? A fruitless imitation of what God intended for life and flourishing.

Two males cannot conceive a child.
Two females cannot conceive a child.
A ‘trans’ man cannot produce a sperm.
A ‘trans’ woman cannot produce egg.
Reality does not bend.

Sex Discrimination Act and Australian Law

And yet the push continues. The Australian Law Reform Commission is now considering whether to loosen Australia’s ban on commercial surrogacy to make it easier for male couples to procure children. If a homosexual relationship cannot produce children, then surrogates must be made more accessible — even paid for.

This is the commodification of human life, and it is grotesque.

Australia is rewriting creation to satisfy the desires of adults — not the rights of children. And the root of this problem goes back further than many realise.

In 2013, then-Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus inserted ‘gender identity’ into the Sex Discrimination Act. This was an Act originally designed for females but suddenly, any man who identified as a “woman” received the same protections.

This legal fiction, that a male can be a “woman”, became a protected category.

The idea that biological sex doesn’t matter took root, and that idea now shapes everything.

The Tickle v Giggle case cemented this new legal definition. A male who identifies as a “woman” sued a female-only app for excluding him… and won. The court ruled that Tickle was disadvantaged relative to other females on the grounds of his trans identity. So much for protecting women.

In response to recent questioning by Senator Claire Chandler, Australia’s Sex Discrimination Commissioner, Dr Anna Cody, couldn’t even answer, “What is a biological male?” When our own Commissioner has no regard for biological realities, national sanity is broken.

Because of this legal falsehood, women are losing every protected space: bathrooms, changing rooms, prisons, sporting clubs, shelters, school camps, accommodation. Everywhere.

You see it now in every government form, census questions, health, education, workplaces, and public policy. It appears in rainbow-washed institutions insisting reproductive organs have nothing to do with sex.

“Pick your gender: male, female, non-binary, other.”

The Fallout

The fallout is truly devastating:

  • Children are being led into confusion, puberty blockers, sterilisation, and irreversible harm.
  • Women are being placed at risk by men in female-only spaces including in prisons and school camps.
  • Parents, teachers, and even principals are being punished for speaking biological truth.
  • In NSW, a mother was fined $95,000 for vilification for defending women’s sport.

Enough is enough.

The Sex Discrimination Act must be restored to its original purpose: protect women — real women.

This is where the deception stops, and truth begins.

Christians must speak clearly, confidently, and unapologetically the biblical truth of creation: “Male and female he created them” (Genesis 1:27).

This truth is reality. This truth is the foundation of human life.

And abandoning it is dangerous and wrong.

Because the simplest truth remains the most profound:

Male + Female = Life

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5 Comments

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    Harvey Bishop 9 December 2025 at 9:49 am - Reply

    I’ts not a Sex Discrimination Act! It’s a Perceived Gender Discrimination Act. Biology is irrelevant!
    They know what they are saying, But they are dead scared of offending anyone (except Christians). We need to be praying much for them. Every church should have a prayer group praying for them and for spiritual renewal

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    Jon D 9 December 2025 at 12:32 pm - Reply

    For years feminists were up in arms yelling from the rooftops declaring womens rights.
    Why are they so deathly silent on this issue!?

    Yes like the above post we need to pray over this insanity for God to raise up men and women to stand against this satanic idea that anyone can be anything other than what God has made them to be. To convict the consciences of those in power of the evil they inflict upon society, so they lay sleepless at night with no rest until they repent of this evil.

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    Ian Moncrieff 9 December 2025 at 12:37 pm - Reply

    Trans-identity doesn’t change reality.
    A male will always be a male and a female always a female.
    The perfect creation for procreation.

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    Monica Bennett-Ryan 9 December 2025 at 1:19 pm - Reply

    Well said! 100% agree! Enough is enough! It’s time for action because faith without works is useless. Prayer is the first step, but action is necessary for miraculous changes to be seen. None of Christ’s miracles happened by prayer alone. Everyone of them came from an action of faith. Without actions of faith after prayer there will be no change. It’s time for action. https://youtu.be/abzmr5i5hLk

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    Pearl Miller 10 December 2025 at 4:53 pm - Reply

    Lord, Thank You for showing us clearly that we are fearfully and wonderfully made. We give You praise and glory and honour. Thank You for truth! Lord help us always stand up for the Truth, love and cherish and appreciate the Truth and hence glorify You in Jesus Name Amen!

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