Transgender woman treated as ‘hostile invader’ when joining women-only app Giggle for Girls, court hears

Roxanne Tickle at the federal court in Sydney during the discrimination case last year. Photograph: Dean Lewins/AAP

A transgender woman was treated “as a hostile invader” and allegedly directly discriminated against twice when she was excluded from a women-only social media app, a court has heard.

Giggle for Girls and its CEO, Sall Grover, are challenging Justice Robert Bromwich’s landmark federal court judgment that found Roxanne Tickle was indirectly discriminated against when she was barred from the platform in September 2021. The case was the first gender identity discrimination case to reach the federal court.