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A biological man who identifies as a woman filed a lawsuit against a “females-only” social media app for excluding him – and has won the lawsuit in a stunning case that has prompted outraged.
From Sky News: A female-only app discriminated against a transgender woman by removing her from the platform, an Australian court has ruled in a landmark case.
The Federal Court of Australia found on Friday that Roxanne Tickle, a transgender woman from New South Wales, was subjected to “indirect gender discrimination” when she was blocked from the social network platform Giggle for Girls in 2021.
She had sued the platform and its founder Sally Grover in 2022 for unlawful gender identity discrimination in its services, and claimed Ms Grover revoked her account after seeing her photo and “considered her to be male”.
Judge Robert Bromwich said in his ruling that while Ms Tickle was not directly discriminated against, her claim of indirect discrimination was successful as using the Giggle App required her “to have the appearance of a cisgender woman”.
He ruled Giggle for Girls and Ms Grover must pay Ms Tickle $10,000 (£5,142) in general compensation, in addition to her costs.
WATCH BELOW as a Sky News host voices her outrage over the ruling:
Transgender “woman” (biological man) Roxanne Tickle sued Australian app Giggle for Girls in Australian federal court after they removed “her” (him) for not being a biological woman.
…and the person won, and the app owner was forced to pay the person $10k.… pic.twitter.com/G6szU6cju8
— Zach (@ZachFrenUSA) August 25, 2024
Meet Roxanne Tickle, a biological man who says he’s a woman has won a discrimination case against Giggle for Girls, an app for women. He was excluded cos he’s a man but judge ruled “sex is changeable”. He still has a 10% chance of getting prostate cancer pic.twitter.com/d0pnAzyEBH
— Black Semi Fascist (@BFacist) August 23, 2024
🚨 Sall found to have “indirectly discriminated” against Tickle, a MAN who thinks he’s a woman, for not letting him use her female-only app.
She is ordered to pay him $10,000 and costs.
It’s official. Australian women no longer have the right to single s-x spaces.
I could cry. pic.twitter.com/gZO076FuWF
— Hazel Appleyard (@HazelAppleyard_) August 22, 2024
“If any man claiming to be a woman was actually a woman, their rights would have actually existed under the Sex Discrimination Act how it was before the amendments. It had to be amended so that men could be included as women.” pic.twitter.com/1gaUiN21ns
— Sall Grover (@salltweets) August 23, 2024
A female-only app discriminated against a transgender woman by removing her from the platform, an Australian court has ruled in a landmark case
Read more ⤵️https://t.co/ESTFTdOnu4
— Sky News (@SkyNews) August 23, 2024
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