The CEO of the female-focused app Giggle for Girls has claimed that there are no women’s rights in Australia following a controversial court ruling.
Australia’s Federal Court ruled on Friday that Roxanne Tickle, a transgender woman, was the victim of “indirect gender discrimination” after she was banned from the social networking platform in 2021.
In an interview with GB News, app CEO Sally Grover sharply attacked the court, claiming that society was being “forced to give men access to female spaces”.
Grover complained: “The app was for women, it’s as simple as that. So it excluded all men. But gender identity didn’t play a role – by the way, women with a gender identity are more than welcome.”
Sally Grover criticises the Australian Federal Court’s ruling on a trans user of her app
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“So if you’re a woman and you say you’re trans or nonbinary or whatever these other made-up concepts are, they were welcome, there were just no men.”
In his criticism of the Australian Federal Court, Grover claimed that the Australian court believes “gender is malleable” and that “any man who claims to be a woman is, legally, a woman”.
Grover told GB News: “Women’s rights are virtually non-existent in Australia at the moment. Basically, they say that the ordinary meaning of sex is mutable, but the reality is that the ordinary meaning of sex is biological and unchanging.”
“Being a biological woman is more than illegal. It basically doesn’t exist under the law.”
Roxanne Tickle received $10,000 (£5,142) from Grover as general compensation
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When asked by presenter Dawn if she had “expected” the court ruling against Roxanne Tickle, Grover admitted that she had “anticipated” the outcome.
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Grover said: “I expected this because the Australian Human Rights Commission had intervened in the case as amicus curiae, or friend of the court, and was present to interpret the law.”
“This case started as a complaint to the Australian Human Rights Commission and because I refused to give in to their demands, it escalated to a Federal Court. They said I need to go to sexual and gender re-education classes, all men who claim to be women on the app should do that, this is not going to happen.”
When asked about the next steps for her app Giggle for Girls, Grover revealed that the platform had to go offline for two years due to the case.
She added: “The decision said that if it was online, I would be compelled to allow him access. So essentially what women in Australia have been told is that we literally don’t have the right to say no to a man.”
Sally Grover said that because of the case, Australian women are now “not allowed to say no to a man”.
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“Women like me have been shouting about this issue for a long time, saying that men claim to be women, that they are taken seriously and that they are taking away our rights. And we are called hysterical and told that this is not going to happen for a long time, but there is no denying it now.”
Grover described the personal stress she experienced during the trial and admitted that the case had taken a heavy toll on her and her family.
Grover told GB News: “I’m losing my hair, that’s probably the kind of physical strain that’s taking its toll. It’s been incredibly stressful.”
“But I think even for women who aren’t in my situation, it’s just stressful. It’s stressful to have your rights taken away like that and be told you have to see a man as a woman.”
