‘Giggle for Girls’ CEO sued by biological male after being prevented from using female-only social media app

According to the Guardian, Roxanne Tickle, a male who identifies as a woman, filed the federal court lawsuit on December 22, claiming to have been unlawfully barred from using the Giggle for Girls social media app. A further complaint against Giggle CEO Sall Grover in the lawsuit is that she believes “transgender women, including the Applicant, to be male.”

The trans-identified male is seeking damages, complete access to the female-only online space, and a written apology from Grover.

“I believe that I am being discriminated against by being provided with extremely limited functionality of a smartphone app by the app provider compared to that of other users because I am a transgender woman,” Tickle stated in an earlier complaint to the Australian Human Rights Commission filed in 2021.

“The app appears not to recognise transgender women as female. I am legally permitted to identify as female,” said the trans-identified male.

Tickle had initially been allowed onto the female-only site, but that access was later revoked. In March, 2022, in response to the human rights complaint, Giggle’s lawyers explained that Tickle was “considered male” based on the selfie submitted when registering and this was the reason for the membership being revoked.

In March 2022, Grover called Tickle a trans-identified male, which appears to be what led to the complaint in the lawsuit.

“In January 2022, I received an Australian Human Rights Commission complaint against both Giggle & me personally, from a trans identified male who wants to use a social networking app for females & for me to be re-educated on sex & gender,” tweeted Grover on March 20.

Grover continues to stand by her belief that trans-identified males are male.

Grover has endured enormous backlash for setting up a female-only space that excludes males who identify as women. In an open letter shared on her Twitter account, she explains how her history of sexual abuse led to the creation of Giggle because she saw the need for women to have a completely male-free space.

At first, trans-identified males were allowed to use the platform, but after many started creating “KILL TERF” profiles, along with numerous other forms of violent threats, Grover realized Giggle needed to be strictly female only.

The acronym TERF stands for trans-exclusionary radical feminist, and is used as a slur to silence all women who refuse to believe that female “gender identities” turn men into women, or who believe that it is wrong to amputate the healthy body parts of gender-confused adolescents.

Grover recalls not even knowing what the term TERF meant at first, but after researching the issue and discovering that “African women raising awareness of Female Genital Mutilation [are] being called TERFs because they used the word female in their activism,” and “lesbians [are] being called transphobic because they won’t date ‘trans women’,” she understood the harm the modern trans rights movement is doing to women and girls.

“Giggle HQ had a meeting, and we changed our policy,” she explains in her open letter. “Giggle is and will always be for females.”