A Sydney doctor who collected thousands of signatures for a petition against the Safe Schools program wants it abolished because it's promoting views that are incompatible with Chinese culture.

Dr Pansy Lai opposes the schools program, which aims to reduce bullying of gay, lesbian and transgender students, and has led a petition against it that has received 17,500 signatures.

'Safe Schools is promoting views on gender and sexuality that Chinese parents find extreme,' she told the Northern District Times.

A petition signed by 17,500 people and presented in the NSW parliament in August has expressed the fears of the Chinese-Australian community

'Chinese people really value family relationships, and we expect to pass on our family values to the next generation. It's a parent's right to teach sexual education to our children.'

Damien Tudehope, the Liberal MP for Epping, presented the petition to the New South Wales parliament in August.

The petition says the Safe Schools program 'discriminates against children and parents from other cultures' who believe a relationship between a man and woman was the norm.

Dr Lai said the program - which requires parental consent - was changing the school culture.

'It's changing school language, changing bathrooms — it's changing the whole school environment,' Dr Lai told the newspaper.

The federally-funded program has been fiercely debated at state and federal level and has come under fire from conservative politicians like Liberal senator Cory Bernardi, who has claimed it is indoctrinating kids in a 'Marxist agenda'.

Liberal Nationals MP George Christensen has likened the program to grooming undertaken by pedophiles.

The petition says that the program 'discriminates against children and parents from other cultures'