• In short: Transgender woman Roxanne Tickle is suing social media platform Giggle for Girls after she was excluded from the women-only app.
  • She is alleging unlawful discrimination on the basis of gender identity while the app’s founder has denied she is a woman.
  • What’s next? The hearing is expected to run for four days.

A transgender woman who was excluded from a women-only social media app should be awarded damages because the app’s founder has persistently denied she is a woman, a Sydney court has heard.

In February 2021, Roxanne Tickle downloaded the Giggle for Girls social networking app, which was marketed as a platform exclusively for women to share experiences and speak freely.

Users needed to provide a selfie, which was assessed by artificial intelligence software to determine if they were a woman or man.

Ms Tickle’s photograph was determined to be a woman and she used the app’s full features until September that year, when the account became restricted because the AI decision was manually overridden.

  • @zbyte64
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    38 months ago

    Discriminating against men is based on gender, discriminating against trans women is based on sex (at birth).

    • FfaerieOxide
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      18 months ago

      discriminating against trans women is based on sex (at birth).

      Do you know a woman’s sex a birth, or just what a doctor guessed based on a look between her legs?

      • @zbyte64
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        18 months ago

        Neither, it has never occurred to me to ask a woman to see what’s between their legs. Nipple piercings on the other hand…

        • FfaerieOxide
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          18 months ago

          So then on what basis do you make your claims about sex?

          How are you even defining “sex”?

          • @zbyte64
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            18 months ago

            The biological characteristics of sex are immaterial to discriminating based on gender; so I don’t see why me defining sex would clarify the larger point.