- 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.
Do you ever know your own chromosomes?
If you wasted money on a karyotype test you probably should have given that money to an unhoused person. 😕
Sorry, english isn‘t my native language
No, I don‘t know my chromosomes, because I don‘t really care, what chromosoms a person has. I only need to know, how to address them
I would ask then what purpose your definition serves if we all admit the application doesn’t matter. All it can do it justify bigotry to give the class (which none of us know what we are in) any credence.