The CEO of women-based app Giggle for Girls has claimed that women's rights are "non-existent" in Australia following a controversial court ruling.
The Federal Court of Australia decided on Friday that Roxanne Tickle, a transgender woman, was the victim of "indirect gender discrimination" after being blocked from the social network platform in 2021.
Speaking to GB News, app CEO Sally Grover hit out at the court, claiming that society is being "forced to admit males into female spaces".
Grover fumed: "The app was for females, it's as simple as that. So it excluded all males. But gender identity didn't come into it - incidentally, females with a gender identity, you're more than welcome.
Sally Grover has hit out at the Australian Federal Court's ruling over a trans user of her app
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"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, it was just no males."
In criticism of the Australian Federal Court, Grover claimed they believe "sex is changeable" and "any man who claims to be a woman is legally female".
Grover told GB News: "Women's rights are essentially non-existent in Australia at this moment in time. Basically, it's been said that the ordinary meaning of sex is changeable, but the reality is, the ordinary meaning of sex is biological and immutable.
"Being a biological female is beyond illegal, it's non-existent essentially, in the eyes of the law."
Roxanne Tickle was paid $10,000 (£5,142) by Grover in general compensation
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When asked by host Dawn if she was "expecting" the court verdict that she got against Roxanne Tickle, Grover admitted that she had "anticipated" that this would be the outcome.
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Grover said: "I anticipated it in the sense that the Australian Human Rights Commission had intervened in the case as amicus curiae, which means friend of the court, and they were there to interpret the law.
"This case started as an Australian Human Rights Commission complaint and because I refused to give in to their demands, it escalated to federal court. They said I had to go to sex and gender re-education, let all men who claim to be women on the app, that's not going to happen."
When asked about the next steps for her app, Giggle for Girls, Grover revealed that due to the case, the platform was forced offline for two years.
She added: "It was in the ruling that if it was online, I would be forced to allow him on. So essentially what has happened in Australia is that women have been told that we literally do not have the right to say no to a man.
Sally Grover said Australian women are now 'not allowed to say no to a man' as a result of the case
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"Women like myself have been screaming for a really long time about this issue and saying that men are claiming to be women, they're being taken seriously and they're taking away our rights. And we've been called hysterical and told that it's not happening for a long time, but that's undeniable now."
Detailing the personal stress on herself throughout the duration of the court case, Grover admitted that the case has heavily impacted her and her family.
Grover told GB News: "I'm losing my hair, that's probably the sort of the physical stress of it that that's been showing. It has been incredibly stressful.
"But I think even for the women who aren't in this position that I'm in, it's just stressful. It's stressful to have your rights taken away like this and to be told that you have to see a man as a woman."
