“What is a woman” has become the catchcry of anti-trans activists who argue there are only two genders – male and female. But Australia’s Federal Court has battled with the question of gender identity for three years in the discrimination case Tickle v Giggle, involving a transgender woman.
Transgender woman removed from a women-only app Giggle for Girls
In the case Tickle v Giggle, transgender woman Roxanne Tickle sued women-only social media app “Giggle for Girls” for discrimination, after it removed her from the site when she was identified as a man seven months after she joined.
Lawyers for the site’s creator Sally Grover argued in court that the Sex Discrimination Act 1984 allows for “special measures” to achieve equality, saying the app was for “natal” women – those who were female at birth. The Act itself does not define the word “sex”.
