In one of the dumbest legal battles in human history, epitomizing the clown culture of the 21st-century West, we have Tickle facing down Giggle.
I covered it for PJ Media last year when the lawsuit first cropped up, and it appears now to be approaching a climax.
Related: 'Transgender Woman' Roxanne Tickle Sues Women-Only App for 'Discrimination'
Via The Guardian (emphasis added):
An app intended as an “online refuge”* for women became the site of alleged gender identity discrimination, a court has heard in a landmark case that will test the meaning and scope of the Sex Discrimination Act.
Roxanne Tickle, a transgender woman from regional New South Wales, is suing the women-only social media platform Giggle for Girls after being blocked from using the app.
In a lawsuit filed in December 2022, Tickle claimed she was unlawfully barred from using Giggle in September 2021 after the firm and its CEO, Sall Grover, said she was a man. Tickle is seeking damages.
Former Liberal party candidate Katherine Deves, representing Giggle, failed to have the case thrown out of court.
*I’m firmly, from a moral and legal perspective, on the women’s side on this one in terms of them not being compelled to admit transes to what is clearly intended as a female-only app. But the idea that such a thing as an “online refuge” exists is silly nonsense. The internet is a dumpster fire; it was always a dumpster fire where the worst aspects of human psychology are regularly showcased; any attempt to put the fire out would require an amount of censorship and technocratic control that would nullify all of the unique benefit of the internet, which is the unfettered flow of information, no matter how noxious.
Continuing:
The case is the first time alleged gender identity discrimination has been heard by the federal court and goes to the heart of how gender identity – and being a woman - is interpreted.
On Tuesday, federal court justice Robert Bromwich heard Tickle has lived as woman since 2017, has a birth certificate stating that her gender is female, had gender affirmation surgery and “feels in her mind that psychologically she is a woman”.
In her opening remarks, Tickle’s barrister Georgina Costello KC said that “Ms Tickle is a woman” but that “the respondents flatly deny that fact”.
“The respondents have insisted on describing Ms Tickle as a man and using ‘he’,” she said. “Persons can change gender and that is what happened here.”
Tickle gave evidence late on Tuesday afternoon. When asked to detail what “living as a female” meant, the accountant described taking hormones that changed her body, having gender affirmation surgery and undergoing social transitions.
She has changed her gender markers on government documents and spent time and money on her wardrobe and removing her facial hair, as well as using female changing rooms and playing in a female hockey team, she said.
“Up until this instance, everybody has treated me as a woman,”** she told the court.
**Obviously, the reason that “everyone has treated” this individual as a woman is because of Social Justice™ convention that has hijacked Western civilization demands that they do so or risk being branded a transphobe and becoming persona non-grata, or even potentially losing their livelihoods.
Once more, although I am on the side of the respondents in this case, it should never be glossed over that it was precisely feminism that birthed this gender ideology in the first place, which first categorized gender and even sex as “social constructs” that are therefore open to re-jiggering — such as a man deciding that he’s a woman named Tickle because he dresses up as that. It wasn’t the patriarchal institutions of yore like the Catholic Church that came up with this nonsense; it was feminists. And now, in classic Frankenstein fashion, they fall prey to their own creation.
That, boys and girls, is what we call irony.
