Women-only app seeks to overturn unlawful discrimination ruling in favour of Roxanne Tickle after judge found ‘sex is changeable’
Giggle for Girls and Sall Grover have launched an appeal against a court decision that found the women-only social media app and its CEO had unlawfully discriminated against the transgender woman Roxanne Tickle., had been unlawfully indirectly discriminated against when she was barred from using the Giggle app in 2021 “because she did not look sufficiently female”. The basis for the decision was that “on its ordinary meaning sex is changeable”.
“Trans and gender diverse people exist. Our legal system recognises this. Society at large recognises this. I shouldn’t have to spend years of my life in court to either prove I exist or to have my existing legal rights upheld.”Jackie Turner, director of the Trans Justice Project, said: “The federal court’s decision was a major step forward for the freedom and equality of all women.
“Sex is discriminatory, it always has been and always will be … biological sex must prevail,” Nolan said.
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