• In short: Transgender woman Roxanne Tickle is suing social media platform Giggle for Girls after she was excluded from the women-only app.
  • She is alleging unlawful discrimination on the basis of gender identity while the app’s founder has denied she is a woman.
  • What’s next? The hearing is expected to run for four days.

A transgender woman who was excluded from a women-only social media app should be awarded damages because the app’s founder has persistently denied she is a woman, a Sydney court has heard.

In February 2021, Roxanne Tickle downloaded the Giggle for Girls social networking app, which was marketed as a platform exclusively for women to share experiences and speak freely.

Users needed to provide a selfie, which was assessed by artificial intelligence software to determine if they were a woman or man.

Ms Tickle’s photograph was determined to be a woman and she used the app’s full features until September that year, when the account became restricted because the AI decision was manually overridden.

  • ZK686@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    I define a woman as a female who has a uterus, how should I define them?

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      I mean personally I figure some way that doesn’t exclude anyone who’s had a hysterectomy, but

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        7 months ago

        That’s silly and you know it. She still had one to begin with. That’s like saying “if a dude cuts off his penis, he’s no longer a dude!”

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          I define a woman as a female who has a uterus

          Your definition. Has a uterus. You said nothing about a female who had a uterus.

          And you haven’t defined female.

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              It’s not my fault that your definition excluded women who had a uterus at one time but didn’t later.

              How about women who have two X chromosomes but were born without a uterus? Not women?

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                7 months ago

                Oh brother…let’s just agree to disagree…it’s obvious what side of the issue you’re on…

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                  7 months ago

                  The side where scientific definitions of women include things like women with two X chromosomes but no uterus?