- In short: Roxanne Tickle, a transgender woman, is suing a women’s-only social media app for allegedly discriminating against her on the basis of her gender identity.
- She is seeking $200,000 in damages for “distress and hurt”.
- What’s next? Justice Robert Bromwich will hand down his decision at a later date.
“This case is the ‘what is a woman?’ case, and one must be able to speak about it fearlessly and frankly,” Ms Nolan said.
Ms Nolan did not use she or her pronouns in referencing Ms Tickle throughout her closing submissions and told the court the applicant did not have the “psychology of a woman”.
“When a woman, biologically born and always so… walks through a dark park at night and hears the footsteps of a man behind her, [she] does not stop to think ‘I wonder which side of Kmart this person shops at’,” she said.
“She laces her fingers around her keys… She speeds up. That is the psychology of the sex embodiment of a woman..
“And if a man was to truly have the psychology of a woman, they would know that, and they would not enter those spaces.
“It proves this applicant accepts the applicant does not have the psychology of a woman and is thereby not a woman, but a man.”
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I reject the concept that; I am an abstract concept of interchangeable parts. I do not consent. What a brilliant scam to make money though. Pass laws that are fundamentally conflicting to a group’s basic sense of identity and safety, and cash in. If “equally” is devoid of fairness, it’s not equal.