The Full Federal Court has handed down its judgement in Giggle v Tickle.
In a shock to women across the country - Sall Grover not only lost her appeal, the Court set aside the original finding of indirect discrimination and replaced it with direct discrimination, upholding Tickle's cross-appeal.
The damages were doubled from $10,000 to $20,000.
It’s important to note the Court expressly said it was only applying the Sex Discrimination Act as it is written- it is "not empowered to give effect to its own view" about whether that law is desirable.
In 2013, @JuliaGillard’s @AustralianLabor government amended the Sex Discrimination Act- stripping the meaning out of "man" and "woman" and adding gender identity as a protected attribute to be pitted against biological sex.
Today's outcome is proof of what those amendments have done: women are left with no meaningful rights or recognition under the Sex Discrimination Act - a bitter irony, given that protecting women was the very purpose of the Act under our commitment to CEDAW.
In my opinion, this is a verdict on the law, not on Sall. The judges found that the law - as that government amended it - left them no other conclusion.
These amendments must be repealed.
The Sex Discrimination Act must once again recognise biological reality and protect women's right to single-sex spaces.
What a dark and devastating day for Australian women and girls.
#RepealTheSDA2013 #IStandWithSallGrover
#GigglevTickle
#Auspol
This is who paved the way for biological girls and women to have their legal protections and rights in Australia, stripped away
Her Labor government enacted legislation to erode sex-based legal protections for biological females in Australia
NEVER AGAIN do I want to hear Julia Gillard referred to as a “feminist” or a “champion of women’s rights”
NEVER AGAIN do I want to hear about her “misogyny speech”
Her legacy should be the truth.
Julia Gillard can’t define what a woman is, and she sold biological women out
#GigglevTickle
Dear @JuliaGillard - on behalf of Australian women and girls who deserve the right to their own spaces, the right to say no to males invading them, and the chance to play sport fairly and safely - you are a disgraceful, misogynistic, fraud. Today’s ruling is on you. For shame.
I’m disgusted at the decision that’s just been handed down by the Federal Court in the Tickle vs Giggle case.
It flies in the face of biological reality, and strips rights from women.
Women’s spaces are not being protected and are no longer safe.
I will back Sall Grover in Parliament.
One Nation is the only party which has tried to amend the Sex Discrimination Act to remove identity politics and reflect biological reality.
I will continue with this effort to protect women’s rights in Australia.