A woman built a safe space for women. The Federal Court punished her for it.

That is the reality of the Giggle v Tickle ruling handed down this week, and every Australian who cares about women’s rights, common sense, and basic biological reality should be furious.

Sall Grover founded Giggle for Girls – a women-only app designed to give women a space free from men. When she removed a biological male from the platform, she was taken to court. Three Federal Court judges ruled against her, finding she had unlawfully discriminated under the Sex Discrimination Act.

Let that sink in. A woman, protecting a women-only space, is now a discriminator under Australian law.

This is not an accident. It is the direct consequence of a decision made over a decade ago by the Gillard Labor government – a decision that Australians are now paying for.

How We Got Here: The Gillard Government’s Betrayal of Women

In 2013, the Gillard government quietly amended the Sex Discrimination Act – replacing the legal definitions of “man” and “woman” with the concept of “gender identity.” At the time, those who raised concerns were shouted down, labelled bigots, and accused of transphobia by the very people who claim to champion tolerance.

The irony of removing the concept of biological sex from the Sex Discrimination Act was noted at the time. The consequences for women and children were entirely predictable. Those warnings were ignored.

Twelve years later, the Federal Court has delivered the inevitable result: a biological male has more legal protection under a women’s rights law than the woman who created a space exclusively for women.

The Politicians Who Are Standing Up

Not everyone in Canberra has been silent.

Liberal Senator Alex Antic has been fighting to restore the Act’s original definitions for years. Last year, he introduced the Sex Discrimination Amendment (Restoring Biological Definitions) Bill 2025 into the Senate, co-sponsored by Nationals Leader Senator Matt Canavan. The Bill sought to undo the Gillard government’s changes and return the law to its common-sense foundations.

Labor and the Greens blocked it. They refused to allow the Bill to even be debated.

Now, in the wake of the Giggle v Tickle decision, Opposition Leader Angus Taylor has promised that a future Coalition government will amend the Sex Discrimination Act to wind back the 2013 changes. More Liberal and National senators and MPs are coming forward in support, recognising what the Australian public has understood all along: women deserve clear, enforceable protections under the law – protections based on biological reality, not ideology.

Senator Antic put it plainly: “We must always be willing to call a spade a spade and defend common sense.”

Sall Grover Is Not Done

Sall Grover has announced she will take her fight to the High Court. Turning Point Australia stands with her.

Her words this week cut through the noise: “Men who claim to be women have more rights than actual women in Australia. It is women who are being discriminated against, not the men who claim to be us.”

She is right. And she should not be fighting this alone.

This ruling carries consequences far beyond one app. Women’s sport, women’s shelters, women’s changing rooms, women’s prisons – every single-sex space in Australia is now at greater legal risk. Critics warn this decision could open the door for biological males to legally compete in women’s sport and access female-only spaces across the country.

What Needs to Happen

Australia needs politicians with the courage to act. The Gillard government’s changes to the Sex Discrimination Act must be reversed. The biological definitions of “man” and “woman” must be restored in law. Women’s spaces must be protected – not by activists, not by courts applying flawed legislation, but by clear, unambiguous law.

Sall Grover built something for women. She deserved the protection of the law. She was failed by it instead.

That failure belongs to every politician who made this possible and every politician who has since refused to fix it.

The High Court awaits. So does the next federal election.