Giggle v Tickle. The name of this Australian court case sounds like an A.P. Herbert legal parody. Except that it is no parody. It is an action brought by a transgender person and activist Roxanne Tickle against a woman-only website, Giggle for Girls, founded and run by a feminist businesswoman Sall Grover.
Tickle, born male but who underwent a surgical sex change in 2019, claimed she was discriminated against by Giggle and Grover on the basis of her being a transgender rather than biological woman, principally on the basis of a selfie submitted to the website and Grover for review as part of her application. Grover, on the other hand, argued that Tickle was not a woman, sex is not changeable, and it was appropriate to block Tickle from joining Giggle, it being a woman-only space.
Essentially, Bromwich answered the burning question of ‘what is a woman?’
In her case, Tickle claimed to have been subjected to unlawful discrimination under Australia’s Sex Discrimination Act, and international human rights conventions to which Australia is a party.
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