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Transgender woman’s ban from female-only app discriminatory, court rules

Tickle v Giggle is the latest flashpoint in an ongoing culture war over how to define sex and gender [Armando Franca/AP Photo]

A transgender woman in Australia was unlawfully discriminated against when she was barred from a female-only social media community, a court has ruled.

Roxanne Tickle, a transgender woman from the state of New South Wales, was subjected to “indirect gender discrimination” when she was blocked from the Giggle for Girls app in 2021 on the basis that she was born a man, the Federal Court of Australia said on Friday.

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