Giggle CEO Sall Grover has detailed her next steps in appealing her case against a transgender woman after a Federal Court judge ruled in favour of the biological man and found “sex is changeable”. After the Federal Court found Ms Grover’s app – Giggle for Girls – had “indirectly discriminated” against a biological man, she sought to raise half-a-million-dollars to lodge the appeal. Transgender woman Roxanne Tickle won the case in August after Justice Robert Bromwich found the complainant to have been victim of unlawful discrimination after being banned from the woman-only app.
Speaking to Sky News Australia host Andrew Bolt, Ms Grover said she was fighting for freedom of speech, freedom of belief and for women across the country, adding she may even appeal to the High Court if need be. Ms Grover said she had filed for an appeal to the full bench of the Federal Court and had “hit the ground running” with the case which will be heard “sometime next year”. The Giggle founder said she was challenging the judge’s ruling and would argue the law should reflect reality as sex is “biological, not legal”.
“The argument is basically that the judge has said that sex is changeable, that the ordinary meaning of sex is that it's changeable, and he's based this decision on three cases over the past 30 years that just involve individuals in a pre-same sex marriage world,” Ms Grover said. “Now, obviously, in all of our lives, the ordinary meaning of sex is no.