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Giggle for Girls founder appeals finding that app discriminated against transgender woman

Women-only app seeks to overturn unlawful discrimination ruling in favour of Roxanne Tickle after judge found ‘sex is changeable’

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As Australian courts test legal definitions of gender, what will it mean for sex discrimination laws?

Trans advocates have welcomed one judge’s decision as heralding greater protections, but some say forcing inclusion is ‘authoritarian’

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The Oz’s unfortunate pic, Social Services (finally) asks what people think, and an old fashioned Fordham farrago

The Department of Social Services calls on an old friend, Grover joins the (inevitable) CPAC circuit, and plenty more in this weeks Tips and Murmurs.

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Transgender Woman Roxanne Tickle Wins Case Against Women-Only App Giggle After They Banned Her

Roxanne Tickle a transgender woman, wins a landmark discrimination case against the women-only app Giggle for Girls after being banned.

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Transgender woman wins discrimination case after being removed from female-only app

Giggle for Girls found to have discriminated against user in landmark Australian case

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Court Ruling Against App Founder Raises Alarms Over Future Of Female-Only Spaces

"Historical win." Australian court rules in favor of transgender woman in unprecedented case after she was kicked off a female-only app. The post Court Ruling Against App Founder Raises Alarms Over Future Of Female-Only Spaces first appeared on Bored Panda.

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Transgender woman wins landmark case against social media app as court defines sex as changeable

Court also orders app to pay her £5,100 plus costs in the now-famous Tickle vs Giggle case

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

Australian judge orders trans woman be paid $6,700 in compensation over exclusion from Giggle for Girls networking app.

Al Jazeera

Roxanne Tickle’s win in the federal court is a historic victory for transgender women

It’s been a case closely watched by the transgender community and legal minds alike. Today in the Federal Court of Australia, a judge ruled in favour of trans woman Roxanne Tickle in her anti-discrimination case against a social media app.

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

Tickle successfully sued social media platform Giggle for Girls with judge stating ‘on its ordinary meaning sex is changeable’

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Reef faces climate-fuelled ‘deterioration’, report says – as it happened

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Court's landmark 'trans women are women' verdict lauded

The founder of a women-only app has been ordered to pay compensation for unlawfully discriminating against a transgender user as a landmark case concluded.

AAP

In Australia, women-only app becomes latest front in war over trans rights

The founder of a women-only social networking app is being sued for denying her service to a trans woman.

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Dutton’s mad Rinehart dash

Peter Dutton made a fast and furious round-trip to Gina Rinehart’s birthday party, Bruce Lehrmann’s karaoke is pissing off his neighbours, and the Productivity Commission chair warns against green manufacturing subsidies.

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‘What is a woman?’: court asked to rule on definition in transgender woman’s case against Giggle for Girls platform

Roxanne Tickle’s lawyer says women-only app has ‘modus operandi of treating transgender women as men’

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Judge to ponder 'what is a woman' case as hearings wrap

A court will decide whether to award $200,000 to a transgender woman who was barred from using a female-only app because the app's founder viewed her as male.

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CEO of female-only app would not address trans woman as ‘Ms’, Sydney court hears

‘I don’t think it’s kind to expect a woman to see a man as a woman’, Sall Grover told the federal court in Sydney

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Defining gender at the heart of major trans rights case

The head of a female-only platform has defended her decision to ban a transgender woman in a historic case of alleged gender-based discrimination.

The Guardian - AU

Tickle v Giggle: transgender woman sues female-only ‘online refuge’ for alleged discrimination in landmark case

Roxanne Tickle claims she was blocked from using the Giggle for Girls app because its CEO said she was a man

AAP

'Battlelines' drawn on sex ID in trans-rights lawsuit

Roxanne Tickle lived as a woman for years before being banned from using a female-only app, a court has heard during a landmark trans-rights lawsuit.

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Sex 'changeable': commission backs trans woman's case

The Sex Discrimination Commissioner is supporting a trans woman's lawsuit against a social media platform that blocked her after classing her as male.

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Media mogul Stokes pity for war criminal

Billionaire Kerry Stokes is ‘disappointed’ Ben Roberts-Smith has been declared a murderer and war criminal, and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese calls for cool heads in the Indo-Pacific.

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Tim Wilson’s Anzac Day wreath stunt

Former Liberal MP Tim Wilson is slammed for his ‘disrespectful stunt’ of pointedly laying a wreath at an Anzac Day service in his former seat saying his successor, Zoe Daniel, wasn’t ‘at an Anzac Day service in her community’, and Opposition Leader Peter Dutton sinks even lower in voter popularity…

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Trans woman's lawsuit raises 'constitutional matters'

A lawyer for a social media platform where a transgender woman was removed after being "considered male" says a lawsuit raises constitutional matters.

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