Female-only app founder appealing court ruling in favor of transgender woman: Taking away our human rights

The founder of a female-only app who lost a landmark court case against a transgender woman has claimed “trans rights” are “taking away our human rights.”Sall Grover now says she is ready for “round two” after last week filing an appeal against August’s federal court judgment, a major gender identity ruling that declared that sex is “changeable and not necessarily binary.”Grover was ordered to pay $6,763 in damages after she was found to have indirectly discriminated against Roxanne Tickle when she removed her from her app, Giggles for Girls, in 2021.AI software designed to filter out men had cleared Tickle, but Grover removed her from the app herself after seeing her profile.Justice Robert Bromwich came to the conclusion that Tickle was excluded from the app for not looking “sufficiently female,” and therefore was indirectly discriminated against.Speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Brisbane on Sunday, Grover insisted “somebody’s biological sex is immutable” and it was a “natural human instinct for us to be able to tell this.”“And if you are then being told by the law that you cannot acknowledge that really basic instinct, you have lost the ability to recognize one of our most basic skills,” she said.“If you just look to the person sitting next to you right now, you can tell if they are male or female.Now imagine if you can’t do that anymore because you’ve got to ask, ‘Do you have a gender identity?’ And if you don’t acknowledge that and give meaning to that then you’re breaking the law.

It simply doesn’t work.”Grover added “we are told constantly that trans rights are human rights, but human rights cannot be rights that take way other people’s rights.”“That’s not how it works,” she said.“And it’s not only that they’re taking away our rights, we’re actually being coerced into giving up our rights.”She recalled first receiving an Australian Human Rights Commiss...