In a landmark decision, the Federal Court has weighed into gender identity discrimination, ordering an app and its founder to pay $10,000 in compensation.
Banning a transgender woman from a female-only app constituted unlawful discrimination, a judge has found in a landmark gender-identity case. The Giggle for Girls app and its founder Sally Grover have been ordered to pay $10,000 in compensation and legal costs to a user kicked off the single-gender platform. The decision that Roxanne Tickle suffered indirect discrimination marked the first time the Federal Court had weighed into gender identity discrimination.
Tickle was blocked from the Giggle app in September 2021 on the basis of her gender, despite a birth certificate listing her as female, the court was told during a series of often-heated hearings in April. The court was told Grover created the Giggle app as a "safe space" for women to interact with each other, free from male patterns of online violence.
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