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Quoting verbatim excerpts from the BBC report:
"A transgender woman from Australia has won a discrimination case against a women-only social media app, after she was denied access on the basis of being male.
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In 2021, Tickle downloaded “Giggle for Girls”, an app marketed as an online refuge where women could share their experiences in a safe space, and where men were not allowed.
In order to gain access, she had to upload a selfie to prove she was a woman, which was assessed by gender recognition software designed to screen out men.
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As someone who identifies as a woman, Tickle claimed she was legally entitled to use services meant for women, and that she was discriminated against based on her gender identity.
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She sued the social media platform, as well as its CEO Sall Grover, and sought damages amounting to A$200,000, claiming that “persistent misgendering” by Grover had prompted “constant anxiety and occasional suicidal thoughts”.
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Grover is a self-declared Terf, which stands for "trans-exclusionary radical feminist". “I’m being taken to federal court by a man who claims to be a woman because he wants to use a woman-only space I created,” she posted on X. “I wanted to create a safe, women-only space in the palm of your hand,” she said.
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Giggle’s legal team argued throughout the case that sex is a biological concept.