• In short: Transgender woman Roxanne Tickle is suing social media platform Giggle for Girls after she was excluded from the women-only app.
  • She is alleging unlawful discrimination on the basis of gender identity while the app’s founder has denied she is a woman.
  • What’s next? The hearing is expected to run for four days.

A transgender woman who was excluded from a women-only social media app should be awarded damages because the app’s founder has persistently denied she is a woman, a Sydney court has heard.

In February 2021, Roxanne Tickle downloaded the Giggle for Girls social networking app, which was marketed as a platform exclusively for women to share experiences and speak freely.

Users needed to provide a selfie, which was assessed by artificial intelligence software to determine if they were a woman or man.

Ms Tickle’s photograph was determined to be a woman and she used the app’s full features until September that year, when the account became restricted because the AI decision was manually overridden.

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    2 months ago

    Why do you want to take away a safe space from cis women?

    Same reason, you feel entitled to not be discriminated against.

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      Why do you want to take away a safe space from cis women?

      1. Trans women don’t make cis women unsafe by their presence.
      2. They didn’t advertise as any sort of a space for cis women. They advertised as a space FOR WOMEN (which she is) and then kicked a woman out.
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        2 months ago

        Ooh, you’re speaking for others again. You have no idea how other people feel. It’s clear society is divided on your second point, both men and women alike. I’d love for it to not be so, but it is. Just facts.

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            2 months ago

            Oh come on now. Don’t outright lie. Why are we even having this discussion if there isn’t debate. It doesn’t surprise me that you’re homophobic.

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              Why are we even having this discussion if there isn’t debate.

              Because you’re insufferable and loud.

              It doesn’t surprise me that you’re homophobic.

              I’m a faggot.

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                Ok fine, there is no debate in society and transpeople have it just alright. Your words.

                You still don’t get it or are in denial, dunno, don’t care.

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                  2 months ago

                  transpeople

                  Trans people. Trans is an adjective modifying the noun “people”.

                  Persons who are trans are not some non-people other thing.