>Justice Robert Bromwich read out a summary of his decision on Friday and noted that Giggle’s founder Sall Grover removed Tickle when she saw her photo and “considered her to be male”. Giggle had argued that the discrimination was permitted because, in its view, Tickle was of the male sex and that was unchangeable.
>But, Bromwich ruled: “These arguments failed because the view propounded by the respondents conflicted with a long history of cases decided by courts over 30 years”.
>He said that “on its ordinary meaning, sex is changeable”.
>Before moving to Australia, he served as a U.S. State Senator and Congressman in the Kansas House of Representatives and was nominated to represent a major U.S. political party for a bid to the United States Congress.