Sall Grover lost her legal battle against a trans woman... but here's why she claims to not be the only loser
Sall Grover has said the day she was found by a court to have discriminated against a transgender woman was the same day womens rights, LGBTQ rights and freedom of speech died in Australia.
Sall Grover has said the day she was found by a court to have discriminated against a transgender woman was the same day womens rights, LGBTQ rights and freedom of speech died in Australia.
Ms Grover is the founder of the app Giggle for Girls, which has been marketed as a digital women-only safe space.
In August, Ms Grover lost a Federal Court case brought by transgender woman Roxanne Tickle.
Ms Grover had banned the 54-year-old from the app in 2021, arguing it was for women and that Ms Tickle is biologically male.
Ms Tickle has identified as a woman since 2017, undergoing surgery two years later and getting a new birth certificate that showed her as female.
Justice Robert Bromwich found Ms Tickle had suffered discrimination, ordering Ms Grover to pay $10,000 in damages - a small fraction of the $200,000 that was being sought - and to cover legal costs.
Speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Brisbane on Sunday, Ms Grover said gender ideology was taking away peoples rights.
We are told constantly that trans rights are human rights, but human rights cant be rights that take away other peoples rights, she said.
Sall Grover spoke at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Brisbane on Sunday, and discussed the issue of gender ideology
Thats not how it works.
Its not only that theyre taking away our rights, were actually being coerced into giving up our rights.
She said she never expected her app to be so confrontational, adding it was blasted with countless one-star reviews following the controversy of Ms Tickle.
We werent properly launched yet, they were saying I was transphobic, (that) I was a TERF (Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist). I never heard that word before, she said.
He (Ms Tickle) would have onboarded the app at some point, I dont remember, but I would have seen a picture of a man and gone, thats a man and I blocked him, and I mean, I was right, she said.
In a normal world we all live happily ever after.
Ms Grover said in order to settle the court case, she wouldve had to allow all men who claim to be women access to the app, attend sex and gender education and moderate the app so men who claim to be women werent offended.
Ms Grover is the founder of the app Giggle for Girls, which has been marketed as a digital women-only safe space
In August, Ms Grover lost a Federal Court case brought by transgender woman Roxanne Tickle (pictured)
So not only did they want to come in but they wanted to control the environment while they were in there, she said.
So I said no to it all.
For Ms Grover, sex is a biological reality assigned at birth and cannot be changed. She is pushing for that to be enshrined in law under the Sex Discrimination Act.
Ms Tickles legal team argued that sex and gender identity were not binary categories but rather they were partly social and psychological.
Ultimately, Justice Bromwich agreed, finding that the argument put forward by Ms Grovers legal team conflicted with a long history of cases decided by courts going back over 30 years.
Those cases establish that in its ordinary meaning, sex is changeable, he said.
Ms Grover last week launched an appeal against the Federal Courts decision, and has so far garnered more than $200,000 out of an $800,000 goal, in donations from supporters.
The case isnt expected to be resolved until 2026 but Ms Grover said she was adamant to fight for womens rights and freedom of speech.
Womens rights have been slowly crumbling behind the scenes and getting no attention, she earlier told Daily Mail Australia.
Its just now that its gotten to a point where myself and so many other women have just said no, enough is enough.
I am inundated with messages from everyday Australians who say I have absolutely no idea that this is happening, this is outrageous.
When Australians wake up and realise what is happening, especially parents, they are outraged and want to get involved.
