Sall Grover lost her legal battle against a trans woman... but here's why she claims to not be the only loser

Sall Grover has said the day she was found by a court to have discriminated against a transgender woman was the same day women's rights , LGBTQ rights and freedom of speech 'died in Australia'.

Ms Grover is the founder of the app Giggle for Girls, which has been marketed as a 'digital women-only safe space'.

In August, Ms Grover lost a Federal Court case brought by transgender woman Roxanne Tickle.

Ms Grover had banned the 54-year-old from the app in 2021, arguing it was for women and that Ms Tickle is biologically male.

Ms Tickle has identified as a woman since 2017, undergoing surgery two years later and getting a new birth certificate that showed her as female.

Justice Robert Bromwich found Ms Tickle had suffered discrimination, ordering Ms Grover to pay $10,000 in damages - a small fraction of the $200,000 that was being sought - and to cover legal costs.

Speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Brisbane on Sunday, Ms Grover said gender ideology was taking away people's rights.

'We are told constantly that trans rights are human rights, but human rights can't be rights that take away other people's rights,' she said.

'That's not how it works.

'It's not only that they're taking away our rights, we're actually being coerced into giving up our rights.'

She said she never expected her app to be so confrontational, adding it was blasted with countless one-star reviews following the controversy of Ms Tickle.

'We weren't properly launched yet, they were saying I was transphobic, (that) I was a TERF (Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist). I never heard that word before,' she said.

'He (Ms Tickle) would have onboarded the app at some point, I don't remember, but I would have seen a picture of a man and gone, ''that's a man'' and I blocked him, and I mean, I was right,' she said.

'In a normal world we all live happily ever after.'

Ms Grover said in order to settle the court case, she would've had to allow 'all men who claim to be women' access to the app, attend sex and gender education and moderate the app so 'men who claim to be women weren't offended'.

'So not only did they want to come in but they wanted to control the environment while they were in there,' she said.

'So I said no to it all.'

For Ms Grover, sex is a biological reality assigned at birth and cannot be changed. She is pushing for that to be enshrined in law under the Sex Discrimination Act.

Ms Tickle's legal team argued that sex and gender identity were not binary categories but rather they were partly social and psychological.

Ultimately, Justice Bromwich agreed, finding that the argument put forward by Ms Grover's legal team 'conflicted with a long history of cases decided by courts going back over 30 years'.

'Those cases establish that in its ordinary meaning, sex is changeable,' he said.

Ms Grover last week launched an appeal against the Federal Court's decision, and has so far garnered more than $200,000 out of an $800,000 goal, in donations from supporters.

The case isn't expected to be resolved until 2026 but Ms Grover said she was adamant to fight for women's rights and freedom of speech.

'Women's rights have been slowly crumbling behind the scenes and getting no attention,' she earlier told Daily Mail Australia.

'It's just now that it's gotten to a point where myself and so many other women have just said no, enough is enough.

'I am inundated with messages from everyday Australians who say I have absolutely no idea that this is happening, this is outrageous.

'When Australians wake up and realise what is happening, especially parents, they are outraged and want to get involved.'