- 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.
Trans women are women if people understand the word women to include trans women. More than that, unless you want to lift everyone’s skirt before adressing them then you might as well just call the people that look like women women and the people that look like men.
And sometimes even if you do.
Nobody’s going that far just to get one over on your stupid fucking app.
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“If I found out a woman I dated was trans i’d probably kill her”
What the fuck is wrong with you? People like you need to be put in a mental asylum. You are not fit to be in society and your mental instability is a threat to the public. Your kind are the type that shoot up a mall when your crush rejects you.
Guy thinks there are Shi Pei Pu walking around everywhere.
Woah. I see where you’re coming from with this one but abhorrent behaviours/speech does not mean someone is mentally unwell. Please reach for insults that don’t punch down on another group.
It doesn’t mean they’re not mentally unwell.
Also, where was OC ‘punching down’ on the ‘mentally unwell community’?
What does that even mean?
It means one should call someone a dickhead with shit posturing and abhorrent morals without saying they need to “be put in a mental asylum”.
The idea that people who act or think in ways that are disgusting or violent are “mentally ill” and not just wrong is a large facet of the stigma attached to being mentally ill.
Surprised at the downvotes. Which bit of not attacking a minority while defending a different minority is the problem?
Listen, mate, threatening to kill people is a pretty shit way to interact with anyone. If you don’t want to date someone with a penis, maybe say so up front. No one is trying to trick you, and no one is trying to lie to you. They’re just trying to live life, same as anyone.
Removed, transphobia, threats of violence. Temp ban.
Hopefully no one gets tricked into dating you only to find out your actually a massive dick. I’m certain no one needs to be worried though.
Wow I think we’ve found the most insecure person on lemmy