This is edition 2026/089 of the Ten@10 newsletter.
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This is the Ten@10, where I collate and summarise ten news items you generally won't see in the mainstream media.
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1. A cross-dressing man trumps a real woman’s rights
Jenny Ruth's Just the Business
- ⚖️ A three-judge panel of Australia's Federal Court ruled that businesswoman Sall Grover unlawfully directly discriminated against Roxanne Tickle by excluding him from her women-only app, Giggle for Girls.
- 🏛️ The ruling overturned the original judge's finding that the discrimination had been indirect rather than direct, a distinction with significant legal consequences for women-only spaces.
- 📜 The relevant law is Australia's Sex Discrimination Act 1984, amended in 2013 under Julia Gillard's Labor government to include "gender identity" as a protected attribute.
- ⚠️ The judgment effectively means Australian women must apply for a formal exemption from the Sex Discrimination Act before they can legally hold women-only events excluding male-born persons.
- 🔍 Justices Melissa Perry, Wendy Abraham, and Geoffrey Kennett used trans-ideological language throughout, including "misgendering," sex "assigned" at birth, and "cisgender" to describe biological women.
- 🔥 The judges found Grover's refusal to use female pronouns for Tickle "gratuitous, disrespectful and unnecessary," even though the biological sex of Tickle was the central factual matter of the case.
- 💰 Grover was ordered to pay Tickle A$20,000 in compensation plus A$100,000 in legal costs, double the original damages award, though half of what Tickle had originally sought.
- 📊 Tickle claimed anti-anxiety medication was needed due to Grover's conduct, but the court noted no medical evidence was provided to support that claim.
- 🏢 Tickle's case was backed by Australia's Human Rights Commission, a A$50,000 University of New South Wales grant, and pro-bono legal assistance from Barry Nilsson lawyers.
- 👥 Grover received no comparable institutional support and has spent more than four years defending herself in court proceedings.
- 🛑 Grover's Giggle for Girls app is now defunct, shut down because she refuses to operate a women-only platform that includes biological males.
- ⚖️ The judges dismissed Grover's stated fear of Tickle as "disingenuous," ruling she must have known Tickle obtained her mobile number from her own email signature.
- 📉 The judgment reduces the biological fact of Tickle's sex to merely Grover's personal "belief," treating an empirical claim as a matter of contested opinion.
- 🌍 The Sex Discrimination Act was originally designed to implement the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, adopted in 1979 before gender identity ideology emerged.
