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Amy Hamm: Australia's Sall Grover fined a disgraceful AU$120K for running female-only app

The Tickle v Giggle appeal ruling is littered with examples of the judges imposing gender ideology

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In 2020, Australia’s Sall Grover launched a female-only social app called Giggle for Girls. By summer 2022, the app was shut down as a precaution against further human rights complaints or litigation, and Grover found herself in federal court attempting to prove what a woman is.

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What a woman is not, as per Grover: the transgender-identified male, Roxy Tickle, who first took Grover to the Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) and, later, federal court, for having been booted from the Giggle app for being a biological male. Australia’s court system disagrees, however.

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Grover lost an appeal on May 15 at the Federal Court of Australia, and was told that her jettisoning Tickle from Giggle not only constituted direct discrimination (a previous judge had ruled that it was a lesser, indirect discrimination) but that she, a single mother whose income source was taken from her, must pay Tickle double the damages, and twice the costs—for a grand, disgraceful total of AU$120,000 (C$ 118,680).

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