‘What is a woman?’: court asked to rule on definition in transgender woman’s case against Giggle for Girls platform

Roxanne Tickle’s lawyer says women-only app has ‘modus operandi of treating transgender women as men’

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A court has been asked to define what a woman is as a landmark gender identity discrimination case comes to a close in front of a packed gallery of trans and women’s rights campaigners in Sydney.

Roxanne Tickle, a transgender woman from regional New South Wales, is suing the women-only social media platform Giggle for Girls and its CEO, Sall Grover, for alleged unlawful discrimination after being blocked from using the networking app.

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