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Breaking: Ruling upheld after transgender woman excluded from female-only app
Sall Grover, centre, arrives at court ahead of the ruling. (ABC News: Liam Patrick)
A court ruling that the exclusion of transgender woman Roxanne Tickle from a female-only app was discriminatory has been upheld.
Roxanne Tickle has been awarded $20,000 in damages in the case against the Giggle for Girls app and its CEO Sall Grover.
A judge previously ruled Ms Tickle was discriminated against due to her gender identity after her access to the social media platform was restricted in 2021.
A landmark Federal Court ruling that the exclusion of a transgender woman from a female-only app constituted gender identity discrimination has been upheld on appeal.
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The federal court upheld a landmark decision that found a women-only social media app and its founder unlawfully discriminated against Roxanne Tickle after the transgender woman was denied access to the app.
In her judgment on Friday afternoon, Justice Melissa Perry upheld a August 2024 finding that Tickle was discriminated against on the basis of her gender identity, and also sided with Tickle’s cross-appeal that she experienced two instances of direct discrimination by the Giggle for Girls app and its founder Sally Grover.
The app and Grover had challenged Justice Robert Bromwich’s milestone August 2024 decision which found they had indirectly discriminated against Tickle when she was barred from the platform because they thought she was a man.
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Tickle v Giggle for Girls: Damages doubled after trans woman’s landmark discrimination win
A transgender woman who won a landmark discrimination suit after she was excluded from a social media app marketed as a “women-only safe space” has had her victory increased by an appeal court and her damages doubled.
Roxanne Tickle took the company behind the app, Giggle for Girls, and its founder, Sall Grover, to the Federal Court in 2022, alleging they breached Commonwealth discrimination laws.
The court ruled in Tickle’s favour in 2024 and ordered the company and Grover to pay Tickle $10,000 in compensation plus legal costs.
Grover and the company lodged an appeal. In a cross-appeal, Tickle asked the court to find the discrimination against her was direct, rather than indirect, and increase the damages.
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