WTF 83 - Interview with Sall Grover

WTF 83 - Interview with Sall Grover

The Giggle for Girls app and its founder Sall Grover were ordered to pay $10,000 in compensation and legal costs to a user kicked off the women-only platform.

The compensation amount is a sliver of the $200,000 Roxanne Tickle had sought, half of which was based on a dismissed claim for aggravated damages.

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The Federal Court found Tickle did not face direct unlawful discrimination on that basis. But her exclusion from the app for not looking "sufficiently female" amounted to indirect identity discrimination.

Tickle was blocked from the Giggle app in September 2021 on the basis of her gender, despite a birth certificate listing her as female, the court was told during a series of often-heated hearings in April.

Tickle had undergone gender-affirming surgery and hormone treatments, identified as a woman to family, friends and employers, and used women's change rooms and shops.