Ebony, 16, became the centre of a national controversy when the NSW government banned the screening of Gayby Baby - a PG documentary about the children of same-sex parents - at Burwood Girls High.

The ban was in response to a front page story in Sydney's Daily Telegraph, which ran under the headline "Gay Class Uproar."

The story generated plenty of outrage on social media, but it was a piece by conservative columnist Piers Akerman that drew the most ire when he singled out Ebony for criticism, using the dictionary and census figures to say her family wasn't "normal".

"Twelve-year-old Ebony is quoted saying: 'It's not normal. You're not normal.' They're the kind of things that go through my head.'," wrote Akerman.

He then quoted the definition of normal as it appears in the Oxford Dictionary and pointed to census figures that show the relative rarity of same-sex couples with children in Australia.

"Children in same-sex couple families are one in a thousand of all children in couple families (0.1 per cent). Statistically, you are not in a "normal" family, no matter how many LGBTIQ-friendly docos you may be forced to watch by politically-driven school principals," Akerman wrote.