roxanne tickle was born a male, changed her gender and has been living as a woman since 2017.ned up to giggle for girls, which is marketed as a safe space for women, men not allowed. and as part of the membership process, she had to upload a selfie and gender identification software would check that she was a woman. men were screened out. now, seven months after she had that membership, her membership was then revoked and she was seeking damages for as much as $200,000 aud. she argued that she was legally entitled to join the app as a woman, but giggle's legal team said that, they argued that sex is a biological concept and that tickle was discriminated on the basis of sex, not gender identity. they said that she was a man and therefore she was allowed to be discriminated against. but thejudge in his ruling said that case law consistently found that sex is changeable and not necessarily binary. and roxanne tickle has reacted saying that this shows all women are protected from discrimination. she hoped that the case would be healing for trans and gender diverse people. but gigg

roxanne tickle was born a male, changed her gender and has been living as a woman since 2017. for girls, which is marketed as a safe space for women, men not allowed. and as part of the membership process, she had to upload a selfie and gender identification software would check that she was a woman. men were screened out. now, seven months after she had that membership, her membership was then revoked and she was seeking damages for as much as $200,000 aud. she argued that she was legally entitled to join the app as a woman, but giggle's legal team said that, they argued that sex is a biological concept and that tickle was discriminated on the basis of sex, not gender identity. they said that she was a man and therefore she was allowed to be discriminated against. but thejudge in his ruling said that case law consistently found that sex is changeable and not necessarily binary. and roxanne tickle has reacted saying that this shows all women are protected from discrimination. she hoped that the case would be healing for trans and gender diverse people. but giggle's legal team

this is roxanne tickle, a woman.s is roxanne tickle, a transgender woman, believe it or not, who sued the social media platform giggle for girls, which is aimed at women , which is aimed at women, claiming that she was unlawfully barred from using the app in 2021 after the firm and its ceo sal grover, said she was a man. does this look like a man to you? no. roxanne tickle is the most womanly woman who ever woman, stunning and brave in every way, from the male pattern baldness to the stubble. now crocodile dundee had a much simpler test to see if someone's a woman or not. but this test test case or test tickle case rested on the sex discrimination act and has far reaching ramifications around the world. for female only spaces being allowed. being forced to allow access to women like me. interestingly, barrister zelie hagar told the court that sex was no longer defined in the sex discrimination act, but that it importantly the act recognises that a person's sex is not limited to their actual biological sex, so gender

the federal court found that although roxanne tickle had not been directly discriminated against — shestralian dollars. our australia correspondent katy watson told us more. as pa rt of as part of the membership process, she had a bloody selfie, and gender recognition software was then used —— she had to upload a selfie, and gender recognition software was used. she found out that seven an australian transgender woman has won a landmark discrimination case against a women—only social media app — after she was denied access on the basis of being male. the federal court found that although roxanne tickle had not been directly discriminated against — she was a victim of indirect discrimination — and ordered the app to pay her 10 thousand australian dollars. our australia correspondent katy watson told us more. as �* the as �*the membership process, she had a bloody selfie, and gender recognition software was then used —— she had to upload a selfie, these are live pictures coming into us at the moment. we can also show you some pictures from overnight, which certainly look very dramatic. t

so this was a character called roxanne tickle. just so that people can understand. and now i don't i wouldn't suggest that, you know, this is obviously a male , who this is obviously a male, who identifies as female and of course, we're all free to identify however we want. but i suppose we're not free, are we, to decide that we can go into women's spaces if we are men simply because we identify as women? now, what i just want to know about this is, does this mean now that in australian law, women are not allowed to gather by themselves, even if it's, say, a lesbian dating group, correct? >> yeah. women cannot gather without the presence of men in australia. we cannot, i mean, just if a male person was to walk into a bathroom or change room, all he has to do is say, i'm a woman, and we literally have no right to say anything else to him. it'sjust. off have no right to say anything else to him. it's just. off you go then. so obviously that's absolutely devastating. but at the same time, women like myself and in australia like cath

the federal court found that although roxanne tickle had not been directly discriminated against — sheanes peninsula, has seen lava spewing into the air. the icelandic meteorological office said the eruption began about 9.30pm local time following a series of earthquakes. the nearby fishing village of 6rindavik was evacuated. these pictures from earlier. it is not known how many people were in the area as most of its nearly 4,000 residents left in november. stay with us on bbc news. hello. it has been a bit of a stormy day so far for some of you, but already conditions are improving and will continue to do so through the rest of today. in fact, it will be an afternoon of sunshine and some blustery showers as well, some of you seeing more of one than the other. the storm, storm lillian, which was with us this morning, is already out into the north sea and so on the back edge of it, isobars opening out, the winds easing down. although scotland, compared to this morning where winds were light, it will be a little bit more blustery here. but here is where we see frequent showers, same too

so this was a character called roxanne tickle.e got an image just so that people can understand. and now i don't i wouldn't suggest that, you know, this is obviously a male , who this is obviously a male, who identifies as female and of course, we're all free to identify however we want. but i suppose we're not free, are we, to decide that we can go into women's spaces if we are men simply because we identify as women? now, what i just want to know about this is, does this mean now that in australian law, women are not allowed to gather by themselves, even if it's, say, a lesbian dating group, correct? >> yeah. women cannot gather without the presence of men in australia. we cannot, i mean, just if a male person was to walk into a bathroom or change room, all he has to do is say, i'm a woman, and we literally have no right to say anything else to him. it'sjust. off have no right to say anything else to him. it's just. off you go then. so obviously that's absolutely devastating. but at the same time, women like myself and in austra

i just wish roxanne tickle had picked the name tess instead.n. discussing all these topics and

tickle who was born male but has identified as a woman since 2017.000 after suing a women only app which had blocked her. so. and she claimed or he claimed or whatever. we're saying that it was an unlawful and discriminatory exclusion from the giggle app, and it's stolen. the last three years of my life. i hate it when an app steals your life. >> it's terrible, isn't it? >> it's terrible, isn't it? >> it's terrible, isn't it? >> it's so bad. i mean, i've spoken to saul grover, who runs giggle. >> this was, you know, on my show she was doing an app, a social media platform for women in the wake of the metoo scandal. you would have thought it's not very controversial that it's not very controversial that it wasn't at all to do with trans issues, nothing like that. and then all of a sudden, this bloke who calls himself roxy tickle decides he should be able to go onto the app, even though it's for women only sues her when she says, hang on a minute, this is for this is for birds. and then it all kicks off in the court. >> and she founded it. by the way,

tickle who was born male but has identified as a woman since 2017.,000 after suing a women only app which had blocked her. so. and she claimed or he claimed or whatever. we're saying that it was an unlawful and discriminatory exclusion from the giggle app, and it's stolen. the last three years of my life. i hate it when an app steals your life. >> it's terrible, isn't it? >> it's terrible, isn't it? >> it's terrible, isn't it? >> it's so bad. i mean, i've spoken to saul grover, who runs giggle. >> this was, you know, on my show she was doing an app, a social media platform for women in the wake of the metoo scandal. you would have thought it's not very controversial that it's not very controversial that it wasn't at all to do with trans issues, nothing like that. and then all of a sudden, this bloke who calls himself roxy tickle decides he should be able to go onto the app, even though it's for women only sues her when she says, hang on a minute, this is for this is for birds. and then it all kicks off in the court. >> and she founded it. by the way,

tickle who was born male but has identified as a woman since 2017.after suing a women only app which had blocked her. so. and she claimed or he claimed or whatever. we're saying that it was an unlawful and discriminatory exclusion from the giggle app, and it's stolen. the last three years of my life. i hate it when an app steals your life. >> it's terrible, isn't it? >> it's terrible, isn't it? >> it's terrible, isn't it? >> it's so bad. i mean, i've spoken to saul grover, who runs giggle. >> this was, you know, on my show she was doing an app, a social media platform for women in the wake of the metoo scandal. you would have thought it's not very controversial that it's not very controversial that it wasn't at all to do with trans issues, nothing like that. and then all of a sudden, this bloke who calls himself roxy tickle decides he should be able to go onto the app, even though it's for women only sues her when she says, hang on a minute, this is for this is for birds. and then it all kicks off in the court. >> and she founded it. by the way, she'

someone who identified as a woman, roxanne tickle, claimed she was legally entitled to use services meant for girls, sal groves, joins us now from the ivory coast. sal morning to you. you've had quite a battle on your hands here. the gold coast, of course. you your point was this website, your app was for women, biological women to talk to each other, not for somebody who is a trans woman . somebody who is a trans woman. >> basically, yes. i mean, the app >> basically, yes. i mean, the app was for females. it's as simple as that . so it excluded simple as that. so it excluded all males. it was just regardless of gender identity, gender identity didn't come into it. incidentally, females with a gender identity are more than welcome. so if you're a female who says that you are trans or non—binary or whatever these other made up concepts are, they were welcome . so yeah, it was were welcome. so yeah, it was just no males. but the australian federal court, at this very moment in time, has decided that any man who claims to be a woman is legally female and that sex is changeable and therefore