Female-only app founder Sall Grover is taking her legal fight to Australia’s highest court, after the federal court found she directly discriminated against transgender woman Roxanne Tickle twice when she chose to remove her from the app.
In a statement on Monday, Ms Grover said the “Giggle v Tickle” case raises “fundamental questions” under Australian law, including the legal meaning of “sex”, the right of women to create and maintain female-only spaces, and the “proper interpretation” of the Sex Discrimination Act 1984 (Cth).
“This case is not just about one app or one individual. It is about whether women in Australia still have the right to single-sex spaces based on biological sex,” Sall Grover said.
“These issues are of profound national importance. Reality and women’s rights must be properly upheld in law.”
Ms Grover said Giggle remains “fully committed to its mission of serving women”, and expresses “deep gratitude to the many thousands of supporters in Australia and around the world who continue to back this important fight”.