What is a woman? A new landmark court decision implies Australia rewrote its definition of gender a long time ago.
“Sex is changeable,” a federal court judge decided in a ruling against a girls-only social networking platform for “discriminating” against a transgender “woman.”
Roxanne Tickle, a middle aged man who believes he is a woman sued the app, Giggle for Girls in 2022, alleging “unlawful gender identity discrimination” after they refused to allow him on the platform, NBC News reports. Sall Grover, the app’s CEO says she created the platform as a “safe space” for girls to share their experiences as…girls.
According to Tickle’s lawsuit, she revoked the account he created in 2021, after seeing his profile picture and “considered (her) to be male.”
With the looks of Biden official Rachel Levine, how could anyone mistake this for anything other than a beautiful lady?
“Sex is changeable”.
— Rachael Wong (@RachaelWongAus) August 23, 2024
These were the judge’s words as he delivered his judgment finding Giggle guilty of indirect gender identity discrimination against Tickle, for refusing him admission to her female-only app.
A disappointing but unsurprising outcome given the judge said at… pic.twitter.com/Tl4YnpWQJj
The Judge, Robert Bromwich apparently agrees. On Friday, he ruled Grover and the Giggle app “indirectly discriminated” against Tickle for believing he’s still a guy, despite reportedly receiving some kind of “gender affirming” operation in 2019 and changing his birth certificate to say “female.”
Bromwich justified the defendant’s delusion, arguing “a long history” of court cases decided over 30 years “established that on its ordinary meaning sex is changeable.”
Thus, Giggle must fork over $10,000 in legal fees to Tickle…on top of $6,700 in legal costs.
That still didn’t match Tickle's initial demands. He wanted the app to pay $200,000 in damages to compensate for his “constant anxiety” and “suicidal thoughts” that he blames on Grover’s “persistent misgendering.”
Tickle v. Giggle (yes, that’s the actual case) marks the first time Australia’s Federal Court has ruling on gender “identity” discrimination since changes were made to the Sex Discrimination Act in 2013, according to NBC.
In a press briefing outside the courthouse on Friday, Tickle celebrated the case’s outcome, emphasizing how much trauma he apparently suffered for not being allowed to enter the app for young girls. It seems he omitted why he was so adamant on joining the platform in the first place.
@10newsfirst Transgender woman Roxanne Tickle has spoken of her relief after a Federal Court judge ruled in her favour, deciding that she was discriminated against by a social media app who banned her from use. The Giggle for Girls app, and its CEO Sall Grover, was found to have breached the Sex Discrimination Act by booting Tickle from the "women-only" platform in 2021. She has been awarded $10,000 plus costs in the landmark case, and says she is excited to return to normal life. #transgender #court #australia ♬ original sound - 10 News First Australia
“I’ve been bursting into tears at different moments, because I knew that…(sighs)...soon this would all be over…” Tickle announced as he choked up outside the courthouse after Friday’s ruling.
“I know that I can now get on with the rest of my life…have coffee down the road with…play hockey with my hockey team,” he added.
That is another woman’s space he forced his way into.
