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Australian court rules transgender woman's removal from female-only app discriminatory
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Roxanne Tickle, a trans woman, was denied access to the Giggle for Girls app in 2022 due to her gender identity. The app's founder, Sally Grover, revoked Tickle's account after seeing her photo and assuming she was male. Tickle sued the app and Grover for unlawful gender identity discrimination, and the Federal Court of Australia ruled in her favor, finding that she was a victim of indirect discrimination. The court ordered the app to pay Tickle A$10,000 plus costs, but declined her request for a written apology. This case is considered a landmark ruling on gender identity in Australia, marking the first time the Federal Court has made a ruling on the issue.
Tickle's claim of direct gender identity discrimination fails, but her claim of indirect gender identity discrimination succeeds.
Even where a person who was assigned male at birth transitions to a woman by having surgery, hormones, gets rid of facial hair, undergoes facial reconstruction, grows their hair long, wears make up, wears female clothes, describes themselves as a woman, introduces themselves as a woman, uses female changing rooms, changes their birth certificate – you don't accept that is a woman?
We are taking a stand for the safety of all women's only spaces, but also for basic reality and truth, which the law should reflect.
Unfortunately, we got the judgement we anticipated. The fight for women's rights continues.
It is a legal fiction that Tickle is a woman. His birth certificate has been altered from male to female, but he is a biological man, and always will be.
I wanted to create a safe, women-only space in the palm of your hand.
There isn't a woman in the world who'd have to take me to court to use this woman only space. It takes a man for this case to exist.
This decision is a great win for transgender women in Australia.
This case sends a clear message to all Australians that it is unlawful to treat transgender women differently from cisgender women. It is not lawful to make decisions about whether a person is a woman based on how feminine they appear.
Up until this instance, everybody has treated me as a woman.
There is so much hate and bile cast on trans and gender diverse people simply because of who we are.
I do from time to time get frowns and stares and questioning looks which is quite disconcerting…but they'll let me go about my business.
Grover's public statements about me and this case have been distressing, demoralising, embarrassing, draining and hurtful. This has led to individuals posting hateful comments towards me online and indirectly inciting others to do the same.
