Sall Grover has said the day a court found he had discriminated against a transgender woman was the same day women’s rights, LGBTQ rights and freedom of expression “died in Australia”.
Grover is the founder of the app Giggle for Girls, which has been marketed as a “safe digital space just for women.”
In August, Grover lost a Federal Court case brought by transgender woman Roxanne Tickle.
Grover had banned the 54-year-old from accessing the app in 2021, arguing that it was for women and that Tickle is biologically male.
Ms. Tickle has identified as female since 2017, underwent surgery two years later and obtained a new birth certificate showing her as female.
Judge Robert Bromwich found that Tickle had suffered discrimination and ordered Grover to pay $10,000 in damages (a small fraction of the $200,000 sought) and cover legal costs.
Speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Brisbane on Sunday, Grover said gender ideology was taking away people’s rights.
“We are constantly told that trans rights are human rights, but human rights cannot be rights that take away other people’s rights,” she said.
Sall Grover spoke at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Brisbane on Sunday and discussed the issue of gender ideology.
‘That’s not how it works.
“It’s not just that they are taking away our rights, but they are actually forcing us to give up our rights.”
He said he never expected his app to be so contentious, adding that it received countless one-star reviews following the Ms Tickle controversy.
‘They still didn’t launch us properly, they said I was transphobic, (that) I was a TERF (Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist). “I had never heard that word before,” he said.
“He (Ms. Tickle) would have joined the app at some point, I don’t remember, but I would have seen a photo of a man and said, ‘that’s a man,’ and I blocked him, and I mean, I was right.” ‘, said.
“In a normal world we all live happily ever after.”
Grover said that to settle the court case, he would have had to allow “all men who claim to be women” to access the app, attend sex and gender education and moderate the app so that “men who “They say they are women.” “I’m not offended.”
Grover is the founder of the app Giggle for Girls, which has been marketed as a “safe digital space just for women.”
In August, Grover lost a Federal Court case brought by transgender woman Roxanne Tickle (pictured).
“So not only did they want to get in, they wanted to control the environment while they were there,” he said.
“So I said no to everything.”
For Grover, sex is a biological reality assigned at birth and cannot be changed. She is pushing for this to be enshrined in law under the Sex Discrimination Act.
Tickle’s legal team argued that sex and gender identity were not binary categories but were partly social and psychological.
In the end, Judge Bromwich agreed, finding that the argument presented by Ms. Grover’s legal team “It conflicted with a long history of cases decided by courts dating back more than 30 years.
“These cases establish that, in its usual sense, sex is variable,” he said.
Last week, Grover filed an appeal against the Federal Court’s decision and has so far raised more than $200,000 of a goal of $800,000 in donations from his followers.
The case is not expected to be resolved until 2026, but Grover said she was adamant about fighting for women’s rights and freedom of expression.
“Women’s rights have been slowly crumbling behind the scenes and have not received attention,” she previously told Daily Mail Australia.
‘It’s just now that we’ve reached a point where I and many other women have said no, enough is enough.
“I’m inundated with messages from ordinary Australians saying I have no idea this is happening, it’s outrageous.”
“When Australians wake up and realize what’s happening, especially parents, they are outraged and want to get involved.”