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  • 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.

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[-] force@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

What if they decide, only those who were born with a vagina at birth, are women and we want only those to be part of our organization?

I mean it'd be like barring someone for having only one kidney, or barring people who have an extra toe, or barring people who are a certain skin color. It's a seemingly random thought pattern and generally makes you a dick. Discrimination based on organs/body parts is wrong. What if they decide that having a big nose makes you not a woman? What if they decide having big ears or short legs or being too tall makes you not a woman? Better yet, what if a trans woman gets a uterus transplant and now has a uterus? Is that when they change the rules to still somehow exclude trans women? Because that's what usually happens.

Trans women still face the discrimination that women face, many of the same problems that many women face, and identify as women, so they shouldn't be excluded from a safe space for their group on the basis of one of their organs not being typical. When you get to the point of going out of your way to remove trans women who have already been accepted into the community, established themselves in the community, and fit in with the community, where other members of the community interacted with them like they would any other woman and viewed and accepted them as women, you're not concerned about "women", you're concerned about your own personal insecurities and taking it out on others. That's the point where you're just trying to pick the specific criteria that excludes the group that you don't like.

Plus many cis women have no uterus, some weren't even born with a uterus, so you're excluding a large portion of the people you're claiming to provide a safe space for.

[-] Taohumor@lemmy.world -1 points 5 months ago

They bar people who are missing limbs from sports. You can't get on the football team or basketball team if you missing an arm, the reasons why should be obvious.

[-] Fal@yiffit.net 4 points 5 months ago

People missing limbs are not barred from sports. Wtf are you talking about

[-] Taohumor@lemmy.world -3 points 5 months ago

Alright find me a one armed or legged nba player. I think semantics arguments are absolute filth but lets play this out for posterity.

[-] Fal@yiffit.net 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

They're not barred. They simply can't compete. What is the competition that having a vagina at birth? What's the competition? What are the rules?

Or is it arbitrary barring of people from spaces based on characteristics that have absolutely nothing to do with ability.

But to answer your question, here https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Gisborne_Gordon

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