'I don't understand the term biological man': Calls for Sex Discrimination Commissioner to resign
By: Max Aldred
Published: Oct 8, 2025
Sex Discrimination Commissioner Dr Anna Cody faces pressure to resign after saying she does not “understand the term biological man” in a Senate Estimates grilling.
Dr Cody was grilled at the Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee on Tuesday over comments she made at the National Press Club in September where she claimed “we are not one version of woman”.
Liberal Senator Claire Chandler pressed the commissioner on the meaning of her comments and said: “Last time I checked, a woman is an adult human female with XX chromosomes".
[ Dr Anna Cody said she "did not understand" the term biological man in a heated senate estimates hearing on Tuesday afternoon. ]
Dr Cody said there was “great diversity” among women.
“That includes culturally, racially marginalised women, First Nations women, women with disability, lesbians, trans women, non-binary,” she said.
“There are a range of people who identify as women, who are women.”
Senator Chandler asked if biological men could be women.
“I think we have different languages that perhaps you’re using than I would use,” the commissioner responded.
“So, I don’t understand the term ‘biological men’.”
Sall Grover has dealt extensively with the Sex Discrimination Commissioner in a high-profile case between her women-only app Giggle and transgender plaintiff Roxanne Tickle.
She told Skynews.com.au her case, the first of its kind to reach the Federal Court, had laid bare the inadequacies of the commissioner and the Sex Discrimination Act.
Dr Cody “should resign” if she cannot define a man or woman, Ms Grover said.
“If you don't know what sex is, what is a biological man is what a biological woman is what a woman-man is, you cannot have the job,” Ms Grover said.
“You can't be Sex Discrimination Commissioner; the bare minimum for the job description is you have got to know what that is.
“She is currently discriminating against women on the basis sex – the Sex Discrimination Commissioner herself."
[ Sall Grover, who faced the commissioner during her Giggle vs Tickle case over gender discrimination said Dr Cody should resign. ]
Ms Grover said Dr Cody had been hypocritical in her assertion she would not use the term “biological female” in Senate Estimates.
“It took us a few months, they would refer to Tickle as female sometimes as a woman sometimes a trans woman sometimes ... so if she’s saying they don’t use these terms, well you did in court.”
She said the act was narrow sighted in favouring transgender identities without mention of others, including non-binary people.
She requested the government clarify the function of the Sex Discrimination Commission.
During the Senate Estimates hearing, Senator Chandler asked Dr Cody whether the Sex Discrimination Act protected the rights of women “based on their sex”.
Dr Cody said it did and made it unlawful to treat someone less favourably based on “their sex”.
“Just so I’m abundantly clear, you’re saying that the Sex Discrimination Act does protect the rights of biological females based on their sex?” Senator Chandler asked.
[ Senator Claire Chandler pressed the Sex Discrimination Commission on the commission's protections for "biological women". ]
Dr Cody replied: "Again, I’ll change the language. It protects women from discrimination ... it does not use the language of biological female. It uses man and woman,”
Senator Chandler further pressed whether the Sex Discrimination Act would protect the rights of “biological females”, or single sex spaces and services.
The commissioner continued to differentiate solely between “men” and “women” in saying it would.
Asked about the case of Hilary Maloney, a transgender woman who abused her five-year-old daughter before she was placed in a women’s prison, Dr Cody said the discrimination act “includes trans women within it”.
“So, the person who I believe you’re referring to is a trans woman,” she said.
“That was very revealing,” the Senator concluded.
It comes after the Federal Court established “sex” is changeable, finding gender identity is a constitutionally valid ground for discrimination.
The finding arose in the Tickle v Giggle case in 2024, in which transgender woman Roxanne Tickle argued she was discriminated against by Ms Grover’s women-only app Giggle for Girls Pty Ltd.
Ms Grover has since appealed the decision.
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