The Australian High Court has rejected an appeal by Sall Grover, chief executive of the now-defunct women-only social media app Giggle, to review a Federal Court landmark ruling that her company had discriminated against a transgender user. Grover announced following the decision that she intends to leave Australia, stating that she refused to live under what she called an “authoritarian nonsense ideology”.
The Federal court had awarded A$10,000 to former user Roxanne Tickle, who is transgender. After both parties appealed the ruling, the court then ruled that Tickle would be awarded A$20,000 in damages as well as ordering Grover to pay Tickle’s legal fees, which amount to more than A$100,000.
