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  • 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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[-] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago
[-] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

I down voted, not because I disagree with the claim, but because it doesn't make any sense in the context and just reads as a knee-jerk dismissive response of a valid point.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

It's true though. Gender is a performance, and as a woman your womanhood is always under scrutiny from everyone else. You can get your identity as woman taken from you if you don't "look woman enough". Which if you say have more masculine features, cut your hair short as a cis woman you become less woman. For example Butch lesbians are actually the most often de-womanized. Same goes for less masculine men. It's a box no one fits into perfectly and having certain genitals doesn't include or exclude you from either.

This person wanted a safe space where they wouldn't have to deal with cis straight men. Which makes it that if men want inclusion in such spaces they need to be better.

Another question for you all, why as cis men do you want inclusion in these spaces?

[-] [email protected] -2 points 5 months ago

So, what about those who are born with a uterus? Where can they go? What if they decide, only those who were born with a vagina at birth, are women and we want only those to be part of our organization? I mean, are they wrong?

[-] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

"trans women are women" is pointing out this isn't about men vs women but the given sex at birth.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

We all accept that trans women are not cis women. The obvious point by the poster was why is it okay to discriminate against men but not trans women?

[-] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

Yes you’re right the transphobes are taking over here

[-] [email protected] -2 points 5 months ago

Lol...what? I've read like 3 comments saying that the app is in the right, the overwhelmingly majority are siding with the trans...

[-] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago

Real /r/unpopularopinion moment.

I think the thing that the TERFs ultimately miss is that this person was initially welcomed in as a woman and treated as a woman by her peers. She did not disrupt the community or harass any of the participants, until she voiced support for Trans Rights.

It was at this point that a handful of moderators decided to interrogate her on her original gender and use that as an excuse to boot an active and in-good-standing member.

So she wasn't removed for "not being a woman". She was removed for "disagreeing with the political views of the admin".

Anyone familiar with Reddit politics should be able to sympathize.

[-] [email protected] -2 points 5 months ago

I don't understand? Reddit politics is ultra liberal, they would eat this women's app alive for discriminating against the trans.

[-] [email protected] -2 points 5 months ago

I define a woman as a female who has a uterus, how should I define them?

[-] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

So if a woman has a hysterectomy, she is no longer a woman? What is she?

[-] [email protected] -2 points 5 months ago

That's silly and you know it. She still had one to begin with. That's like saying "if a dude cuts off his penis, he's no longer a dude!"

[-] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

I define a woman as a female who has a uterus

Your definition. Has a uterus. You said nothing about a female who had a uterus.

And you haven't defined female.

[-] [email protected] -2 points 5 months ago
[-] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

It's not my fault that your definition excluded women who had a uterus at one time but didn't later.

How about women who have two X chromosomes but were born without a uterus? Not women?

[-] [email protected] -2 points 5 months ago

Oh brother...let's just agree to disagree...it's obvious what side of the issue you're on...

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