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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Politics
Daisy Dumas

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

Roxanne Tickle
Transgender woman Roxanne Tickle has won a discrimination case against the Giggle for Girls app and CEO Sall Grover. Photograph: Bianca de Marchi/AAP

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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