• In short: Transgender woman Roxanne Tickle is suing social media platform Giggle for Girls after she was excluded from the women-only app.
  • She is alleging unlawful discrimination on the basis of gender identity while the app’s founder has denied she is a woman.
  • What’s next? The hearing is expected to run for four days.

A transgender woman who was excluded from a women-only social media app should be awarded damages because the app’s founder has persistently denied she is a woman, a Sydney court has heard.

In February 2021, Roxanne Tickle downloaded the Giggle for Girls social networking app, which was marketed as a platform exclusively for women to share experiences and speak freely.

Users needed to provide a selfie, which was assessed by artificial intelligence software to determine if they were a woman or man.

Ms Tickle’s photograph was determined to be a woman and she used the app’s full features until September that year, when the account became restricted because the AI decision was manually overridden.

  • @BassTurd
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    296 months ago

    Because she is a woman. It’s really that simple.

      • @MetaCubed
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        46 months ago

        Trans woman = woman, I fail to see your point.

          • @[email protected]
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            6 months ago

            They are saying that all women — cis and trans — are women. It doesn’t mean or imply that trans women and cis women have no differences.

              • @PotatoKat
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                76 months ago

                Trans women = women

                Cis women = women

                Cis women ≠ trans women

                • @[email protected]
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                  06 months ago

                  False, the ‘=’ is transitive, meaning:

                  A = B and B = C implies A = C

                  The symbol you meant to use is the implication arrow: =>

                  Trans women => women

                  Cis women => women

                  Black women => women

                  Lesbian women => women

                  This means: If the left statement is true, the right statement must also be true. If the left statement is false, you don’t know whether the right statement is true or false.

                  • @PotatoKat
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                    06 months ago

                    Did you understand what I was saying?

                    Yes?

                    Then it’s true. This isn’t a math class in university this is a conversation on Lemmy. You understood the point so my message was conveyed.

                  • @[email protected]
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                    86 months ago

                    They are trying to say that cis and trans women both fall under the larger group known as women, they just don’t understand math.

                  • @MetaCubed
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                    36 months ago

                    Could you explain what part of it doesn’t make sense to you? (Or what part you disagree with) Maybe one of us can clarify better if we start there

                  • @PotatoKat
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                    -16 months ago

                    Literally do not care I’m not in a math class I’m on Lemmy. I conveyed the point and you understood it so it did make sense. Learn how language and communication works.

              • @Ultraviolet
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                You’re being intentionally dense. Different adjectives can apply to the same noun without implying those adjectives are the same thing. It’s extremely basic grammar.

              • @[email protected]
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                “X is Y” in English translates mathematically to “X is a subset of Y”

                Here’s an example written out in plain English. You can do the exercise of translating it to math terms to see how it makes sense.

                • A square is a polygon
                • A triangle is a polygon
                • A square is not a triangle
          • @afraid_of_zombies
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            46 months ago

            Am I the same as you absolutely? No? Ok but we are both humans, right?

            When assigning things to categories we make lists of properties. So yes there are differences but those aren’t the criteria of assignment. A 90 year old cis woman and a 19 year old cis woman are both still woman despite them having differences.

            • @[email protected]
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              I bet you would equally have a problem with the phrase “women are women” because there is no 1:1 equivalence between two women. Ask yourself why “natural” has to be added in the response when it wasn’t in the original statement?

            • @[email protected]
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              -16 months ago

              It is unfortunate that people are being attacked for asking questions. It is very toxic here.

            • Flying SquidM
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              -16 months ago

              Please define what a ‘natural woman’ is. Specifically. Is it chromosomes? Is it anatomy?