Sall Grover Is Single-Handedly Fighting to Save Women's Rights In Australia
Welcome to the dystopian mess that is Tickle v. Giggle
When Sall Grover launched the female-only app Giggle for Girls in 2020, she had one goal in mind: to create an online space where women could meet, network and chat with each other — free from the presence of men.
Little did Grover know that her business venture would spark a years-long legal battle that not only challenged women’s right to access female-only spaces, but also their right to be recognised and protected as a distinct sex class.
Allow me to explain.
In 2021, one year after Grover launched Giggle, an individual named “Roxanne” Tickle attempted to join the app and was denied entry.
If you hadn’t already noticed, Tickle is a man. But because he identifies as a woman, he feels entitled to women’s spaces.
In 2022, Tickle lodged two Australian Human Rights complaints — one against Giggle and another against Grover personally — alleging gender identity discrimination. At the time, Grover had a choice: either agree to conciliation or be taken to federal court.
The conditions for conciliation were preposterous. Grover would have to: apologise to Tickle; pay him $20,000; allow him and every other man who identifies as a woman to join the app; censor women’s speech on the app to avoid offending any of them; and attend “sex and gender education classes.”
Because Grover has integrity and more than one brain cell, she refused these conditions.
In April 2024, Grover, Tickle, and their respective legal teams argued their cases before Justice Robert Bromwich. Four months later, Bromwich ruled that Tickle had been discriminated against under the Sex Discrimination Act.
Yes, you read that right.
Tickle, a man, had been discriminated against under the Sex Discrimination Act.
How, you might ask? The Act, passed in 1984, was shamefully amended in 2013 to include gender identity, thereby rendering its original purpose — to protect women on the basis of sex — null and void. Now, any man who claims to be a woman has legal access to any female-only space.
Bromwich justified his decision by declaring that “sex is changeable.” While this is of course not true — one can only ever mimic the opposite sex, not become it — he was referring to a person’s legal sex, which shockingly is changeable under Australian law.
Bromwich also claimed that “sex is not […] confined to being a binary concept, limited to the male or female sex, but rather takes a broader ordinary meaning […] including biological and physical characteristics, legal recognition and how they present themselves and are recognised socially."
In other words, Bromwich was not only arguing that women have no right to access female-only spaces, but also that sex itself does not exist.
Grover was ordered to pay Tickle $10,000 in damages, plus his legal costs. Luckily for the women and girls of Australia, Grover isn’t going to go down without a fight. She appealed the decision in October 2024, and in August 2025 — just last week — she and Tickle appeared in court again to argue their respective sides.
And now, we wait. It’s impossible to know exactly when a decision will be made, but one thing is certain: the rights of every single woman and girl in Australia hang in the balance.
In the meantime, allow me to state for the record: I stand with common sense. I stand with the truth. I stand with Sall Grover.