Women-only social media app Giggle for Girls taken to court by transgender woman Roxanne Tickle after her account was restricted - Lemmy.World

* 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.