A transgender woman (a biological male who identifies as female) from Australia has won a discrimination case against a women-only social media app, after she was denied access for being male.
The Federal Court found that although Roxanne Tickle had not been directly discriminated against, she was a victim of indirect discrimination, when a decision disadvantages a person with a particular attribute. It ordered the app to pay her the equivalent of £5,100 plus costs. The case is both a landmark ruling about gender identity and addresses the increasingly contentious question: what is a woman?
Speaking exclusively to en, a spokeswoman for Christian Action Research and Education (CARE) said: ‘The Tickle case is causing concern beyond Australia as it could be cited in other jurisdictions seeking to resolve similar conflicts. It saw an Australian judge make the wholly false claim that sex is "changeable and not necessarily binary" before upholding the right of a biological male to access a service where vulnerable women seek help from other women. As elsewhere, gender ideology is here being endorsed to the detriment of women and children. This trend should be clearly opposed by the church.’
