Women-only social media app Giggle for Girls taken to court by transgender woman Roxanne Tickle after her account was restricted
Women-only social media app Giggle for Girls taken to court by transgender woman Roxanne Tickle after her account was restricted
Social media platform Giggle for Girls is being sued by transgender woman Roxanne Tickle after her access to the women-only app was revoked. The app's owner has denied Ms Tickle is a woman.
- 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.
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Wow an app based on gender descrimination is being sued for gender descrimination. I'm shocked
But they're right though. Trans women aren't women.
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.
unless you want to lift everyone’s skirt
And sometimes even if you do.
Ms Tickle's counsel Georgina Costello KC told the court her client has a birth certificate stating her gender as female and has had gender affirming surgery.
Nobody's going that far just to get one over on your stupid fucking app.
Obviously not going to do that, however if a trans woman were to lie to me and date me I'd probably kill them when/if I found out they were trans.
I'm also not going to pretend for the ones that don't pass either, or go by someone's preferred pronouns.
"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
Yawn
Words have meaning as defined by people. They are subject to change.
You know what this means though? It means that no one ever needed to push back against it at all just not engage in it themselves. Cuz they just eat each other in a vacuum. Without some enemy to band together against like the boogeyman of boogeymen whitey, their inner chaos is all they're left with with no enemy to project it on, so they eat each other and everything just crashes and falls apart. No one needed to do anything, not even complain, just look at it in amusement and take another sip of their coffee and go about their day thanking god that's not you.
You are arguing that communities can't exist unless they unite against a foe?
Ozymandias moment
His community can't and if he was capable of imagining other people's lives, he wouldn't be far-right in the first place.
Growing up means recognizing someone can understand someone without empathizing.
Their name checks out though.
No my argument is some people all they have in them is "fight against a foe". It means if you don't present yourself as a foe they'll walk right past you, it's like a trex. It'll only chase something that moves, so because they are always in fighting even with no opponent they will make one within themselves because those are the only people looking for a fight.
Like they have 0 interaction with people who aren't interested in a fight. Take note that some random accused me of being far righter hoping I would take their bait. It's pathetic at best. It's truly an example of the snake eating its own tail.
T-Rex damnit. Hyphens are important
Did you forget you're not in your sleazy little far-right bubble?
I'm not a right winger. I just see an ouroboros when I see it, it's the snake eating itself.
Blantant lie.
Epic name
Bit redundant, no?