Over 16,000 Sign Petition Against Self-Sex ID and Commercial Surrogacy

‘These regressive reforms endanger, discriminate against, and/or commodify and exploit women and children.’

A gender neutral sign is posted outside a bathroom at Oval Park Grill in Durham, N.C., on May 11, 2016. Sara D. Davis/Getty Images

A petition calling for the rejection of a New South Wales (NSW) bill that would legalise commercial surrogacy and self-sex ID has gathered over 16,000 signatures.

Rachael Wong, CEO of Women’s Forum Australia, recently launched a petition to call on parliamentarians to reject the equality legislation amendment (LGBTIQA+) 2023 bill, which would allow biological males to legally identify as women and access women-only spaces, fully deregulate prostitution, and overseas commercial surrogacy.