Transgender campaigner who led fight against Rip Curl’s ghosting of surfer Sasha Jane Lowerson wins $10,000 in new court case

Trans-gal banned for not looking "sufficiently female" wins stunning victory!

The brave transgender campaigner Roxy Tickle, she with the curly black hair and smoky blue of eye, has won ten thousand Australian dollars in a landmark case that hopes to spring open previously shut doors to T-Girls all over the country. 

Roxy Tickle, who is fifty-four and blossomed into womanhood in 2017, sharing the journey with her myriad followers, was removed from an app called Giggle for Girls, an online safe space for women to interact with each other “because she did not look sufficiently female” according to Justice Robert Bromwich, who ruled in her favour.

Tickle sued for two-hundred gees and won ten.  She hoped the victory was “healing for trans and gender diverse people.

“Mostly I get to just live my life and be who I am. But a small group of people have taken it upon themselves to declare that I am not who I know I am and they have set about making my life miserable.

“This case and the unlawful and discriminatory exclusion from the Giggle app has stolen the last three years of my life. I have been targeted by hateful online commentary and degrading merchandise designed to ridicule and mock me.

‘The ruling shows that all women are protected from discrimination. I brought my case to show trans people that you can be brave, and you can stand up for yourself. I know that I can now get on with the rest of my life and have a coffee down the road with my friends, play hockey with my team and put this horribleness behind me.”

Back in February, after Rip Curl celebrated trans-surfer Sasha Jane Lowerson in a post only to delete it when they got a little pushback from transphobic bigots, Tickle used her platform to shame the company as “cowards”. 

In another post, Tickle used a picture of trans German songstress Kim Petras to prove the point that sex is as fluid as the juices that sluice from our sex works.

“Apparently some people are referring to Kim Petras as a man. Shoulda gone to Specsavers.”

A very good point!