Tickle v Giggle is the world’s first test case for the definition of ‘woman’.
Full Spiked article is here.
Court Statement by Katherine Deves Morgan, Sall Grover’s Lawyer.
“What is a woman, if thinking one is a woman means a woman? A
Woman is not a thought.
The applicant’s lawyer’s summation of a woman is not only deeply
offensive but absurd – how one dresses, where one shops, etc.
Both sexes can shop on the opposite side of the aisle.
The more troubling and insidious aspect of the applicant’s evidence, is
that there is this entitlement to access spaces where the female sex go,
proving incontrovertibly that the applicant does not have the psychology
of a woman.
Our society recognises the importance of single-sex spaces in certain
circumstances – female-only toilets, dormitories etc – to keep women
safe from male violence. These are the very places the applicant says he
goes.
When a woman who is biologically born and always so – whether she has
had her reproductive organs removed or not, whether she thinks she’s a
male or not – walks through a dark park in the middle of the night, she
does not stop to think: I wonder what side of Kmart this person shops
from, have they had their facial hair removed, have they told people in
the workplace whether they’re a woman or not?
She doesn’t do that. She doesn’t stop for one second to do that.
She senses instinctively what she perceives to be a threat. She tightens
her fingers around her keys. She speeds up.
If a man truly had the psychology of a woman, he would know that and
not enter female-only spaces.
This proves the applicant lacks the psychology of a woman. That the
applicant is not a woman.”
Conspiracy of Kindness 