Transgender woman Roxanne Tickle wins discrimination case after being banned from women-only Giggle for Girls app

Tickle successfully sued social media platform Giggle for Girls with judge stating on its ordinary meaning sex is changeable'

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A transgender woman who sued a women-only social media app for alleged gender discrimination has been awarded $10,000 plus costs after a judge found she had been indirectly discriminated against in a landmark decision that tested the meaning and scope of the Sex Discrimination Act.

Roxanne Tickle, a transgender woman from regional New South Wales, sued the social media platform Giggle for Girls and its CEO, Sall Grover, claiming she was unlawfully barred from using the app in 2021 after the firm and Grover said she was a man.

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