State-sponsored abortions, castrating children with drugs and surgery, “hate speech” prosecutions, and discriminatory DEI hiring practices will now be considered human rights abuses by the U.S. Department of State.

The major shift in foreign diplomacy, which will also affect Australia, was announced on November 24 as the department issued new guidance to U.S. embassies, consulates and diplomats involved in compiling its annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices.

The news follows an earlier declaration by the U.S. State Department that “mass migration poses an existential threat to Western civilisation and undermines the stability of key American allies” — and that U.S. officials will now “urge governments to take bold action and defend citizens against the threats posed by mass migration.”

That announcement added that “US officials will now scrutinise policies in Western nations that give leniency to migrant crime and human rights abuses or that create two-tiered systems that prioritise migrants at the expense of their own citizens.”

Trump’s New Human Rights Focus

Highlighted earlier this week by The Daily Declaration, Washington’s clampdown on global human rights abuses was also picked up by multiple legacy media outlets which dutifully spun the story to keep the Trump outrage machine humming.

In articles purporting to be straight news reports:

• The BBC complained about “the expansion into foreign policy of the Trump administration’s domestic agenda on issues that have become a lightning rod of division in the US”;
• Forbes invoked critics claiming “Trump’s changes” were an effort to “push the administration’s agenda”;
• Reuters moaned that “the human rights issue has been repurposed to fit [Trump’s] priorities in favour of… an agenda he sees as appealing to his MAGA base.”

By contrast, The Daily Signal — which is not beholden to the prevailing secular-globalist narrative — helped its readers understand, rather than loathe, the Trump administration’s latest move, explaining:

The new instructions for the report require that U.S. officials note the following “infringements” on human rights in foreign countries:

• Sex-change procedures for minors, such as hormone replacement regimens or irreversible transgender surgeries.
• Government funded abortions or abortifacient drugs, as well as the total estimated number of annual abortions.
• Arrests, administrative penalties, and “official investigations or warnings” for speech or “hate speech.”
• The enforcement of policies like affirmative action or diversity, equity, and inclusion that “provide preferential treatment” to workers on the basis of race, sex, or caste.
• The facilitation of mass or illegal migration across a country’s territory into other countries.
• Attempts to coerce individuals into engaging in euthanasia.
• Violations of religious freedom, including antisemitic violence and harassment.
• Medical abuses, including forced testing, forced organ harvesting, and eugenic gene-editing practices on human embryos.

Australia’s Human Rights Abuses Spotlighted

Australians — including many Australian Christians — have largely succumbed to the media-borne illness known as Trump Derangement Syndrome, and are likely to judge Trump’s diplomatic course-correct on the basis of hysteria rather than principle.

However, for Christians especially, it’s worth considering the gross injustices taking place on Australian soil that will now be scrutinised by our closest ally, top security partner, and the world’s preeminent superpower. These include:

• State-funded abortions: Australian taxpayers, through Medicare, pay for nearly all abortions, with around 100,000 pre-born babies being killed annually. Drug-induced abortions now make up around 60%, rising 5–10% each year.
• Sex-denying interventions for minors: Around 2,000–3,000 young Australians receive “puberty blockers” or cross-sex hormones each year. About 25% of referrals proceed, and there are no national bans and scant oversight.
• “Conversion therapy” bans: Six states or territories (covering approximately 85% of Australians) now forbid “conversion therapy”, including informal counselling or prayer. Penalties can reach 10 years’ imprisonment and AU$500,000 in fines.
• Assisted suicide: Assisted suicide via lethal injection is legal in six states or territories, with 500 cases in 2024. Safeguards against coercion face continual legal erosion.
• Quotas and targeted hiring: Selective hiring now affects 70% of public sector roles and major companies, often disadvantaging qualified applicants who don’t belong to preferred identity groups.
• “Anti-discrimination” laws: Enforcement of “anti-discrimination” laws led to 2,500 complaints in 2024 alone (40% of these workplace-related), with many Australian employees facing legal action and job loss over “violations.”

Australians Impacted by Human Rights Violations

Australians should take note that the injustices outlined above aren’t abstract or theoretical, but affect real people.

As Australia’s largest Christian news site, The Daily Declaration has maintained a comprehensive record of the people whose lives and families have been upended by these injustices, even as the corporate press — including the taxpayer-funded ABC — has been at pains to ignore them.

Instead of being brushed under the proverbial rug, here’s who we might see featured in the United States’ upcoming human rights report on Australia, thanks to the courage of President Donald Trump and his administration:

• Israel Folau: The famous Rugby Australia player was sacked after posting a biblical warning that unrepentant sinners, including homosexuals, would go to hell. He later settled an unfair dismissal claim and has not returned to professional rugby in Australia.
• Dr Jereth Kok: A Melbourne GP indefinitely suspended for social media posts expressing traditional Christian views on marriage, sexuality, abortion, and Islam.
• Lyle Shelton: The former national director of the Australian Christian Lobby, Lyle was pursued over blog posts labelling drag-queen story-time events as harmful to children. He was initially cleared in 2023, and the appeal decision is still pending as of 2025. He has been tied up in litigation for almost six years over his warnings about these events.
• Kirralie Smith: Founder of Binary Australia, Kirralie has faced nine court appearances under NSW anti-vilification and sex-discrimination laws for social media posts critiquing men’s involvement in women’s sport. The cases resulted in an Apprehended Violence Order restricting her public commentary.
• Matthew Squires: A Sydney IT professional and former Liberal Party candidate, Matthew was dismissed by his employer and disendorsed by the party after screenshots of private Facebook posts criticising homosexuality surfaced.
• Moira Deeming: The Victorian Liberal MP was expelled from her party after co-organising a “Let Women Speak” rally disrupted by neo-Nazis. She was accused of bringing the party into disrepute despite no evidence she endorsed the intruders, before being readmitted to the party.
• Dr. Jillian Spencer: A senior psychiatrist at Queensland Children’s Hospital, Dr Spencer was suspended and removed from clinical duties after raising concerns about the long-term effects of “puberty blockers” and cross-sex hormones for minors.
• Dr. William Bay: A Queensland GP suspended by AHPRA for publicly opposing vaccine mandates. His suspension was overturned on appeal in 2024, after he had been barred from practice for over a year.
• Dr. Paul Oosterhuis: A Sydney anaesthetist suspended for Facebook posts questioning COVID vaccines and mandates, deemed breaches of professional standards regarding misinformation and public health.
• Sall Grover: Founder of the women’s-only social app Giggle for Girls, Sall lost a Federal Court case under the Sex Discrimination Act for denying access to a transgender-identifying male. She was ordered to pay compensation and change her policy, with her 2025 appeal ongoing.
• Elizabeth Kendal: A long-serving Anglican lay minister, Elizabeth was forced to resign from all diocesan roles in Melbourne after refusing to sign the Child Safety Code, which requires volunteers to affirm Victoria’s conversion-practices ban.
• Declan Mansfield: A library worker in WA dismissed after refusing mandatory DEI training on “implicit bias” and “white privilege,” who has a pending legal challenge against the council for ideological coercion.
• Jasmine Sussex: A barrister and former Australian Breastfeeding Association counsellor, Jasmine was brought before a tribunal after stating in a seminar that biological men cannot breastfeed, a remark deemed vilifying toward transgender-identifying individuals.

America Reasserts Human Rights as God-Given

Under the Trump administration’s new guidelines, every one of these Australians has suffered a clear breach of their basic human rights and may appear in the US State Department’s upcoming human rights report on Australia.

Notably, the unnamed senior official who briefed the BBC framed the new guidelines as an affirmation of America’s commitment to the God of the Bible as the wellspring of human rights.

“The United States remains committed to the Declaration of Independence’s recognition that all men are endowed by the Creator with certain unalienable rights,” he said, adding that human rights are “given to us by God, our creator, not by governments.”

Australia, whose population was around 98% Christian at the time of Federation, would do well to learn from the United States’ reassertion of its founding principles.

Fortunately, even if we don’t, we may yet benefit from America’s return to moral sanity.

This article was originally published by The Daily Declaration.