The 21-year-old victim was allegedly attacked opposite the four-star Grand Hotel | GOOGLE STREET VIEW
A Syrian man has been charged after a woman was allegedly raped on Brighton Beach earlier this month.
The 21-year-old victim was reportedly attacked opposite the four-star Grand Hotel at around 2am on May 3.
Sussex Police received a report of the alleged attack the following morning. A man was then arrested on suspicion of rape on May 14, and remanded into custody.
Bilal Alkadour, 35, has now been charged with sexual assault, assault by penetration and rape of a woman aged 16 years or over in relation to the incident.
The Syrian national, of Cromwell Road in Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire, appeared at Brighton Magistrates’ Court on May 16 and remains in custody.
Alkadour is expected to appear before Lewes Crown Court on June 15.
Chief Superintendent Adam Hays said: “Detectives have been working tirelessly since this report was received to identify a suspect and gather any available evidence.
“I can confirm we are not currently looking for anybody else in connection with this investigation.”
Speaking on the victim, receiving support from officers, he added: “I would like to thank her for the courage she has shown in reporting this matter and assisting with our enquiries.
“I know this incident will be concerning to the public.
“We will continue to conduct round-the-clock patrols on the seafront while working with our partners to protect the public and safeguard vulnerable people.”
A large majority of Germans say they are “concerned” about the state of the government and see no political options for improvement, yet paradoxically, a plurality says they don’t want the present political settlement, in which the country’s highest-polling party remains locked out of government, to change.
A considerable 84 per cent of Germans say they feel “great or very great” concern about the political “state of affairs” in their country, polling finds, as faith in the government’s ability to find the right answers continues to collapse.
That the answer to Germany’s problems requires more than just a new government was underlined by further findings in the INSA poll, reported by Die Welt, that another large majority, 64 per cent, said they couldn’t see any potential combination of parties forming a new government that could turn things around.
Emphasising that worries about the direction of the country are widespread, just 11 per cent felt only “slight concern” about the national state of affairs.
Separate research by the same pollster in recent weeks suggests this concern about the way politics is being conducted is driving German voters towards anti-establishment parties, such as the right-wing sovereigntist Alternative for Germany (AfD), which advocates tax reform and severely curbing mass migration. The latest INSA polling, which asked who respondents would vote for if there were a federal election this coming weekend, found the AfD the most popular party at 29 per cent, up one per cent in a week.
In second place are the centre-right globalist Christian Democrats on 22 per cent, putting over half the political support in the country behind right-wing parties of varying flavours, which could, at first glance, signal a potential future government. Yet Germany’s mainstream politics runs a so-called firewall against the AfD, a system enforced by social shame and political expedience that forbids all cooperation with the pro-change party.
So, a right-wing coalition government remains impossible, and the INSA polling suggests that, somewhat paradoxically, despite public exhaustion with politics and the recognition that the status quo isn’t working, they want to keep it that way. A plurality of 47 per cent say they want the ‘firewall’ to remain in place, with 41 per cent saying it should go.
Remarkably, the strongest supporters of the firewall are among those who could theoretically benefit most from it, with Christian Democrat voters backing the cordon sanitaire at 67 per cent. Like other European countries where the centre-right globalist and right-wing nationalist parties do not get along, the desire to freeze out the rival may be as much about avoiding social stigma from being associated with what have been labelled the “far right” as about any political consideration.
The INSA poll follows other recent research. As reported earlier this month, 78 per cent of Germans think the Friedrich Merz government has failed to solve the migration problem, and his personal approval rating is plummeting, making Merz one of the least-loved leaders of a major European country.
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Last Friday, an Ipsos poll conducted for the Jean-Jaurès Foundation, Le Monde, and Cevipof indicated that 45 percent of French voters are now considering voting for the National Rally (RN) in the 2027 elections, meaning the anti-migration party’s candidate is favored to win the presidency.
According to Antoine Bristielle, director of the Foundation’s Opinion Observatory,the poll shows that RN “has managed to unite very different electorates around a common foundation, but that its cohesion remains fragile as soon as one moves away from this foundation.”
The Jean-Jaurès Foundation identifies four main profiles of RN voters, which can be grouped into two categories. The “identity-based liberals” include older, politically engaged voters firmly rooted in the right, as well as the “forgotten France,” which represents “a working-class bloc, more economically vulnerable, marked by a strong sense of abandonment and combining demands for social protection with identity radicalism.”
However, the other two groups are more recent profiles, demonstrating the RN’s expansion to new voters. The “shifting France,” representing those “less politically engaged and still uncertain,” and the “opportunistic radical right.” This latter group of voters, seen as “more affluent, more educated, and highly politically engaged,” is, according to the report, “already largely aligned with the RN’s positions” but may have voted for other right-wing parties in the past.
Immigration, as expected, is a paramount topic for at least three of the four groups. “There are too many immigrants in France” is confirmed by 97 percent of “forgotten France,” 99 percent of “identity-based liberals,” 43 percent of “shifting France,” and 96 percent of “opportunistic radical right.” As to the statement, “Now, I no longer feel as at home as before,” the percentages of support were 96, 98, 72, and 94, respectively.
Italian President Sergio Mattarella and Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni (C, partially visible) with Modena Mayor Massimo Mezzetti talk to first responders at the Baggiovara hospital on May 17, 2026. Massimo Mezzetti on Facebook, May 17, 2026
Italy’s government has warned against dismissing the Modena car-ramming attack as merely the act of a disturbed individual, as the case reignites fierce political debate over immigration, integration, and public security.
Eight people were injured on Saturday after a driver at high speed ploughed his car into pedestrians and cyclists in the centre of the northern Italian city of Modena. Four victims remain in serious condition, including a woman who had to have both of her legs amputated.
The suspect, 31-year-old Salim El Koudri, an Italian citizen of Moroccan origin born in Bergamo, attempted to flee the scene before stabbing a passer-by who tried to stop him. He was eventually overpowered by members of the public and arrested.
Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi said investigators had so far found no evidence of links to organised Islamist networks or terrorist groups. However, he insisted it would be wrong to portray the attack simply as the isolated actions of a mentally ill man.
In an interview with the newspaper Il Giornale, Piantedosi said El Koudri had previously been diagnosed with a schizoid personality disorder and had expressed “resentment and dissatisfaction” with his social and professional situation.
Authorities are also examining anti-Christian emails sent by the suspect to his university in 2021, containing insults against Christians and blasphemous language.
“There are no indications of structured Islamist radicalisation,” Piantedosi said, while adding that the assault nevertheless raised “profound questions” about social alienation, integration, and identity among some second-generation immigrants.
The remarks reflect growing concern within Italy’s right-wing governing coalition that failures in integration, combined with psychological instability and exposure to extremist rhetoric online, may create serious security risks even in the absence of formal terrorist connections.
Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini argued that the case demonstrated the collapse of Italy’s approach to integration. Speaking on Radio 24, Salvini said it was even more alarming that the suspect was educated and socially integrated on paper, rather than marginalised or isolated.
If he drives around with a knife in his car, mows down people at 100 km/h in the center of Modena, and writes “Christian bastards” and praises Allah in Arabic on … Facebook, it is evidently even more serious.
Italianissimo, laureato e perfettamente integrato, non vi pare? Chissà se qualcuno tenterà ancora di minimizzare l’attentato di Modena. Vediamo se tivù e stampa di sinistra censureranno anche queste parole d’amore… Avanti con la proposta di legge della Lega per revocare la… pic.twitter.com/aSGWsEKv7U
increasingly disturbing details are emerging about Salim El Koudri. Hatred towards Christians and strong resentment towards Italians. Reducing his act solely to a mental health problem is proving more and more to be an incorrect oversimplification!
Emergono aspetti sempre più inquietanti su Salim #ElKoudri, l'attentatore di #Modena. Odio verso i cristiani e forte risentimento verso gli italiani. Ridurre il suo gesto solo a un problema di salute mentale risulta sempre di più una semplificazione sbagliata! pic.twitter.com/9cx7OOtZMc
Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni cancelled her Cyprus trip to join Italian President Sergio Mattarella visiting the victims in hospital on Sunday, while Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani called for greater attention to both mental health and security concerns.
Several politicians within the coalition used the attack to renew calls for stricter immigration controls, including tougher rules on residency permits and family reunification. Members of Salvini’s Lega party argued that residency rights should be revoked more easily for migrants who commit crimes or display signs of dangerous extremism.
The attack once again lays bare the failures of Europe’s migration policies. While this was the first such attack in Italy, car-rammings have become a modus operandi for Islamic terrorists in other parts of the continent.
Many of these perpetrators have been said to suffer from mental illnesses, but the question arises: why are only migrants mad enough to plough into a crowd of people?
Investigators continue to analyse Salim El Koudri’s electronic devices and online activity, while authorities have postponed his formal questioning until Tuesday, May 19th. His lawyer has claimed the suspect was neither religious nor observant, noting that he requested a Bible while in custody rather than Islamic literature.
For many Italians, however, the Modena attack has reinforced fears that Europe remains vulnerable not only to organised terrorism, but also to violent acts carried out by alienated individuals of migrant backgrounds shaped by failed integration, social resentment, and ideological hostility towards Western society.
Sierra Leone First Lady Fatima Bio, Sierra Leone President Julius Maada Bio, United States President Joe Biden, and United States First Lady Jill Biden in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House at the U.S.-Africa Leader Summit, Wednesday, December 14, 2022. (Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz, Wikimedia Commons, PD US Government)
Sierra Leone’s First Lady, Fatima Jabbe-Bio, has retained tenancy of a subsidised council flat in Southwark, south London, despite living in a presidential mansion in Freetown, the Sierra Leonean capital, and being linked to a substantial property portfolio in West Africa.
The two-bedroom property, in one of London’s most deprived boroughs, has had the same tenant since December 2007, according to Southwark Council records. The average monthly council rent for a two-bedroom flat in the borough is about £560 (€660), roughly a third of local market rates.
Electoral registers show Jabbe-Bio registered to vote there as early as 2009, with her daughter also listed in 2023. A company was also registered to the address in 2008. Neighbours and visitors have reported post addressed to the presidential couple at the block.
Council homes in the UK are a form of social housing provided at below-market rents to those meeting eligibility criteria, typically based on low income or need. Southwark has more than 18,000 households on its waiting list, including over 4,000 in temporary accommodation, while London as a whole had over 336,000 in 2024, the highest figure in more than a decade.
Jabbe-Bio, a former actress and model, moved to the UK as an asylum seeker in the late 1990s after reportedly escaping an arranged child marriage in Sierra Leone amid the civil war.
She lived in the Southwark flat with her children before marrying Julius Maada Bio, whom she met in London around 2012 while he was fundraising for his first presidential bid. He became president in 2018 and was re-elected in 2023.
In a BBC interview, part of the Global Women series, she defended keeping the tenancy, stating, “My children are all British citizens. I’m paying for my council house myself. I have not committed any crime.” She noted that her children continue to live there.
Southwark Council said in response to media queries that it does not comment on individual cases but carries out checks where there is doubt about compliance with tenancy rules, which generally require the property to be the tenant’s main or sole residence.
Investigative reporting by the Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) and others has highlighted the African assets of the presidential couple, though Jabbe-Bio has declined to confirm or deny details when questioned.
Sale records and other documents obtained by OCCRP show that between May 2022 and February 2024, Jabbe-Bio acquired two villas, an apartment building and a flat in the Gambia. Her mother is also listed as the owner of a luxury villa that was purchased for $500,000 (€460,000) during that period, while Jabbe-Bio’s two half-brothers also saw their real estate portfolio grow, including with a large hotel development.
When he gained power, Bio promised to make the fight against corruption one of his top priorities.
Earlier, Jabbe-Bio also shared a video on social media with Dutch drug lord Jos Leijdekkers present at a family party. He is the most wanted criminal in the Netherlands for cocaine smuggling and is hiding in Sierra Leone. He is reportedly married to the daughter of the presidential couple, said by OCCRP and Dutch media to be a Sierra Leonean diplomat.
Leijdekkers has been sentenced to 24 years in prison for a series of drug shipments and for ordering a hit that was never carried out. He must also pay €96 million to the Dutch State in respect of his profits from the cocaine trade. In Belgium, he was also sentenced to a total of 50 years in prison in a series of high-profile trials.
A Maltese Christian preacher said Catholic priests privately supported his criticism of Islam but were allegedly prevented from speaking publicly by Archbishop Charles Scicluna.
On May 12, Christian preacher Jesrit Angel Camilleri stated in a video published on Facebook by the Maltese conservative party, Ahwa Maltin, that several local Catholic priests had contacted him privately to praise his public defense of Christianity and criticism of Islam. At the same time, he claimed they were unable to speak openly, because Scicluna had allegedly forbidden such interventions. Camilleri’s remarks were later highlighted in an article published on May 16 by a local blog, which linked the allegations to previous controversies surrounding Scicluna’s open support for Islamic religious education in Malta’s schools.
“Numerous Catholic priests have privately contacted me,” Camilleri said in the video. He added that these priests “wanted to speak publicly but were allegedly prevented from doing so by the archbishop.”
No independent evidence has yet been publicly produced to substantiate the claim that priests were formally instructed not to speak publicly against Islam. LifeSiteNews contacted the Archdiocese of Malta for clarification, but received no response before publication.
In April of 2017, Scicluna expressed openness to Muslim religious instruction in state and Church schools for Muslim students. At the time, Imam Mohammed El Sadi had proposed that Muslim pupils in government schools should be able to receive Islamic religious education in a manner comparable to Catholic religious instruction.
According to a report published by MaltaToday on April 5, 2017, Scicluna responded favorably to the proposal and said inclusivity formed part of the Catholic Church’s ethos. The newspaper reported that the archbishop’s reaction surprised even El Sadi himself.
“I was surprised by his noble approval of Muslim students’ right to learn Islam at state schools,” El Sadi told MaltaToday at the time. He also said he was “stunned” by Scicluna’s willingness to consider Islamic education for Muslim students attending Church schools.
The proposal generated criticism among some Maltese parents and administrators of Church schools, according to MaltaToday. Critics argued that Catholic educational institutions should remain focused on Christianity rather than facilitating instruction in other religions. The controversy intensified after an online petition calling for Scicluna’s removal reportedly gathered more than 2,000 signatures within eight days.
The same 2017 report stated that Malta’s education minister at the time, Evarist Bartolo, “cautiously welcomed” the proposal while stressing that, “as in the case of Catholic religion or ethics classes, these teachings in Islam would only be for those who specifically asked to attend and would not be compulsory for all students.”
Bartolo also said that any Islamic studies curriculum would require approval from the education ministry and would need to comply with Malta’s constitutional order, human rights standards, and democratic principles.
Following the controversy, Scicluna responded publicly by saying that his proposal “is not about Islam at all.” In an apparent attempt to calm the situation, the Times of Malta reported that Scicluna “would favor having Muslim children receiving religious instruction in Church schools, seeing it both as an issue of religious freedom and also a human right.”
Scicluna has served as archbishop of Malta since 2015. In previous years he became internationally known for his work within the Vatican on clerical abuse investigations before returning to Malta to lead the local Church by the will of Pope Francis. Debates concerning Islam and religious education in Malta intensified during the 2010s as the country experienced demographic changes and an increase in foreign residents, including growth among Muslim communities.
Malta has become subject to massive waves of migration coming from Africa and the Middle East, as an intermediate stop on the way to continental Europe, particularly Italy, Germany, and France.
Salim El Koudri, a Muslim terrorist, rammed his car into a crowd and then attacked people with a knife. Two women are severely injured. Some have lost limbs.
But the usual signal has gone out to insist that El-Koudri is not a Muslim terrorist and that, like nearly every Muslim terrorist, he’s suffering from ‘mental illness’.
‘Foreign rescuers’ have also quickly been invented, much as in the Manchester Arena bombing and the Bondi Beach attack, to displace the actual Italian gentleman who took him down, Luca Signorelli.
Giorgia Meloni may be popular on social media, but she offered a meaningless non-statement. The Modena mayor insisted that it was actually Muslims who had stopped the attack and that diversity is our strength, and that what Italy really needs is more Muslims moving there.
Transport Minister Matteo Salvini said what needed to be said, warning that ‘second generation’ Islamic colonists like El Koudri were even worse than the first generation. “We must pursue with even greater determination the path of revocable residence permits for serious crimes. Certain people are absolutely unintegrable; there’s no point in anyone denying the dramatic evidence for ideological reasons.”
But back to El-Koudri, currently the center of a cover-up, what did he think? “I am bullied, marginalized, and I live in a country of racists.”
Italy gave him a degree in economics. Gave his Moroccan Muslim immigrant parents free housing. Gave them free health care. And in return, El-Koudri couldn’t be bothered to hold down a job, hated Italy and carried out an Islamic terrorist attack.
Sure, why not sign up for more of the same.
Here’s the state of the usual post-terror propaganda
A car crashes into a crowd in Modena. Salim El Koudri’s neighbor says, “He was good, but then he changed. Islam had nothing to do with it.” – Virgil
Modena attack: In addition to Signorelli, the Egyptian and Pakistani heroes who stopped El Koudri – RailNews
Modena, the two Egyptians who helped stop Salim El Koudri: “We’ve lived here for 30 years, but we don’t have citizenship.” – Today.it
Modena responded: 5,000 people gathered in the square following Mayor Mezzetti’s appeal. “United against those who spread hatred.”
Entrepreneur and founder of a women’s-only application has been ordered to pay $20,000, with an additional maximum of $100,000 in court fees, to a trans-identified male after he was denied access to the platform. CEO of Giggle for Girls Proprietary Limited, Sall Grover, was also found to have “discriminated” against Jason “Roxy” Tickle by recognizing him as a male in a selfie he submitted for on-boarding.
The ruling comes after more than four years of litigation, with Tickle having first filed a discrimination complaint through the Australian Human Rights Commission in December of 2021. The latest and final ruling, handed down in the Federal Court on Friday afternoon, was a response to an appeal lodged by Tickle in August 2024 to a decision made by Justice Bromwich stating that Grover was guilty of “indirect discrimination.” At the time, Grover was ordered to pay $10,000 in compensation to Tickle and to pay his court costs up to $50,000. Dissatisfied with the outcome, Tickle further pursued litigation seeking a verdict of direct discrimination.
In a shocking new development, Justice Melissa Perry sided with Tickle, doubled the compensation payout from $10,000 to $20,000, found Grover guilty of direct discrimination, and ordered her to pay court costs for Tickle up to $100,000. In her decision, Justice Perry cited the Sex Discrimination Act of 1984, which was significantly amended in 2013 to include explicit protections for “gender identity.”
Under Section 4(1), “gender identity” is defined as: “…the gender-related identity, appearance or mannerisms or other gender-related characteristics of a person (whether by way of medical intervention or not), with or without regard to the person’s designated sex at birth.”
Section 5B defines what constitutes discrimination in a legal situation and is divided into two categories: direct discrimination, and indirect discrimination. Direct discrimination “occurs when someone is treated less favorably than a person of a different gender identity would be treated in the same or similar circumstances.” It can be inferred from this definition that the law is suggesting that all individuals possess a “gender identity.”
Indirect discrimination is said to occur “when a condition or requirement is imposed that is the same for everyone but has the effect of disadvantaging people of a particular gender identity, and that condition is not “reasonable” under the circumstances.”
The final ruling stated that Grover had “engaged in unlawful direct discrimination” against trans-identified male Tickle by “excluding Ms Tickle from access to the Giggle App on the basis of her gender-related appearance,” “refusing to restore Ms Tickle’s access to the Giggle App on the basis of her gender-related appearance,” and “thereby treating Ms Tickle, who is a transgender woman, less favourably than a person designated female at birth seeking access to the Giggle App.”
I am absolutely devastated 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.
But in a sense, nothing has changed: we will all wake up tomorrow & men will still not be women.
The May 15 ruling states that Grover discriminated against Tickle because she recognized him to be male, and in a bizarre reasoning, argues that he qualifies as a woman despite having male features.
“It is apparent that Ms Grover made her decisions in relation to Ms Tickle solely on the basis of viewing the latter’s onboarding selfie and her conviction that that photograph showed a male person… Ms Tickle’s selfie was in evidence and we were taken to it in the course of argument in the appeal. Although the photograph presents Ms Tickle as a woman (eg hair, clothing), there are features of her appearance that may be considered discordant with that presentation. Ms Tickle’s appearance, it may safely be concluded, was the reason why Ms Grover concluded that she was not entitled to remain as a user of the Giggle App; and that appearance had elements (“characteristics”) that generally appertain to, or at least are imputed to, transgender women – namely, for want of a better expression, male facial features.”
Somewhat confusingly, the ruling also acknowledged that “gender identity” is a “multifarious and cryptic” attribute. It also explicitly details how amendments to the Sex Discrimination Act 1984 (SDA) were designed to remove sex-specific protections, stating: “to the extent that the SDA had previously embodied a concept of sex as involving binary categories fixed at birth, part of the intention of the 2013 amendments was to ensure that the Act would no longer embody or give effect to such a concept… to the extent that the term ‘woman’ appears in the SDA or the concept of womanhood is important to its operation, it is not to be understood by reference to any narrow or rigid conception of femaleness.”
Immediately following the decision, Grover said from her X account: “I am absolutely devastated. 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. But in a sense, nothing has changed: we will all wake up tomorrow and men will still not be women.”
Grover has signaled her intention to appeal the recent decision in Australia’s High Court.
Tickle, a man who claims to be both intersex and transgender, claimed he attempted to join the female-only app in February 2021 but found that his membership was revoked in September that year. The Giggle app utilizes a screening process which uses AI to determine the sex of an applicant based on a selfie. Tickle was initially granted access to the female-only digital community by the AI.
During an interview with The Australian in April 2022, Grover explained that she took it upon herself to remove Tickle after seeing his photo and identifying him as male. “The person was removed from the Giggle app because they are male, no other reason. The removal was manual. I looked at the onboarding selfie and saw a man. The AI software had let them through, thereby making a mistake that I rectified.” Lawyers defending Grover said that she had been unaware that Tickle identified as transgender during the screening process.
Justice Melissa Perry doubled the amount Sall Grover had been ordered to pay, and found her guilty of “direct discrimination”
Tickle was therefore was booted from the community, and then made several attempts to contact Grover to complain. He sent Grover multiple emails and called her at her home in October 2021.
“I believe that I am being discriminated against by being provided with extremely limited functionality of a smartphone app by the app provider compared to that of other users because I am a transgender woman,” Tickle wrote in the complaint. “I am legally permitted to identify as female… I believe that Giggle and Sall Grover have decided in error that I am male.”
In January 2022, I received an Australian Human Rights Commission complaint against both Giggle & me personally, from a trans identified male who wants to use a social networking app for females & for me to be re-educated on sex & gender.
Tickle bizarrely went on to compare Grover to a white supremacist group, saying, “I have been unable to locate a Facebook page or website for the Ku Klux Klan in Australia. Yet groups that favor discrimination against people based on their gender identity appear to have no need to hide their face.” He then went on to list several Australian women’s rights groups which are critical of males being permitted to identify as female, and referred to this position as “bigotry”.
Tickle had, in his first complaint, sought damages from Grover of up to $200,000, alleging that her “persistent misgendering”, or referring to him as male, had prompted “constant anxiety and occasional suicidal thoughts”. He also requested that Grover be made to “seek out education” regarding the concept of gender identity.
In July of 2022, Tickle, being unable to bear the costs of pursuing the matter further, filed a Notice of Discontinuance with the court, and the complaint was dropped. But five months later, Tickle filed another complaint, having received a $50,000 grant from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) Sydney, and assistance from Barry Nilsson lawyers, who run a multimillion-dollar pro bono program.
In contrast, Grover was left with no other option than to crowdfund an incredible $500,000 in order to defend herself against the discrimination claim.
Australian women’s rights advocate @salltweets has been ordered by a court to pay $10,000 to a man who was denied membership on her female-only social media app.
The Tickle v Giggle ruling suggests that humans can change their biological sex.https://t.co/3aNm5uSjlD
In August 2024, the Federal Court of Australia found Grover had “indirectly discriminated” against Tickle. While reading out the verdict and reasons for his decision at the Federal Court of Australia, Justice Bromwich referred to Tickle with feminine pronouns, and made the bizarre claim that “sex is changeable.”
“Roxanne Tickle is a transgender woman whose female sex is recognized by an official updated Queensland birth certificate… I have found that Ms. Tickle’s claim of direct gender identity discrimination fails but that her claim of indirect gender identity discrimination succeeds.”
The argument made by Grover’s legal team was that Tickle was discriminated against on the basis of his sex, which is not prohibited, rather than on the basis of gender identity, as he claims. Justice Bromwich’s verdict stated that “these arguments failed” due to a “long history of cases decided by courts going back over thirty years” which he said established that, “in its ordinary meaning, sex is changeable.”
Justice Bromwich then ordered Grover to pay Tickle $10,000 compensation, in addition to court costs up to $50,000, within 60 days.
Justice Bromwich went on to say that “that indirect gender identity discrimination did take place” on the basis that “Tickle was excluded from the use of the Giggle app because she did not look sufficiently female according to the respondents.”
As previously reported by Reduxx, Tickle’s behavior has been called into question, with some critics suggesting that he has been behaving in an overtly sexual manner.
In addition to his attempts to access the female-only social networking app, Tickle has been playing field hockey on a women’s team. He has opposed proposed legislation which would have prohibited men from identifying into women’s sports, while boasting of using the women’s change rooms.
On his personal Instagram account, Tickle has also shared photos of his underwear, jokes about sex toys, and several cartoons drawn by Canadian transgender diaper fetishist Sophie Labelle. Recently, Tickle took to X to reveal that the youngest girl he competes with on the field hockey team is just 15 years old.
News of the recent ruling has prompted widespread criticism on X, the social media site primarily used by Grover, with an outpouring of support for her.
The Full Federal Court’s decision in Tickle v Giggle confirms the original finding that the Giggle for Girls app unlawfully discriminated against Roxanne Tickle.
The Coalition’s position remains clear: women and girls have a right to safe, private and fair single-sex spaces.…
— Senator the Hon. Michaelia Cash (@SenatorCash) May 15, 2026
Senator Michaelia Cash, Leader of the Opposition in the Australian Senate, added her thoughts on the ruling by stating that “women and girls have a right to safe, private, and fair single-sex spaces.” Senator Cash played a central role in the evolution of the Sex Discrimination Act 1984 (SDA), though her position has shifted over the years.
Initially, Cash was a vocal supporter of adding “gender identity” as a protected attribute. Her support was significant because it signaled bipartisan agreement on legally codified “gender identity” policies.
More recently, while acting as Attorney-General, Cash called for limitations on the enforcement of “gender identity” policies and became an advocate for establishing exemptions which intrude on the personal lives of individuals.
Today, the Federal Court handed down its decision in the Giggle v Tickle appeal.
The judges made clear that under Australia’s current laws, “gender identity” is treated as legally equivalent to biological sex. That means Sall Grover lost this case.
Similarly, Leah Blyth, Senator for South Australia and representing the Liberal Party shared her views on the ruling.
“The judges made clear that under Australia’s current laws, ‘gender identity’ is treated as legally equivalent to biological sex. That means Sall Grover lost this case. I believe the Court applied the law as it currently stands. Which means the law itself must change. Women and girls deserve clear, protected sex-based rights in law, including the right to single-sex spaces, services and protections based on biological reality.”
One particularly egregious result of the subjective sense of “gender identity” being codified into law is the transfer of violent male sex offenders into women’s prisons.
AUSTRALIA: A transgender pedophile is set to sue the government of Victoria over alleged "human rights abuses" he has suffered while housed in a women's prison.
Autumn Tulip Harper is serving a 4-year sentence for sexually abusing his 5-year-old daughter.https://t.co/YGiot2UHSw
In March, Reduxx revealed that a transgender pedophile is attempting to sue the Australian state of Victoria over alleged “human rights violations” he has experienced while housed in a women’s prison. Autumn Tulip Harper, also known as Hilary Maloney, sentenced to just under 5 years in prison for the horrific sexual abuse of his own 5-year-old daughter.
Police determined that Harper had directly sexually abused the girl on at least 19 separate occasions in the course of just one month – yet despite this, Maloney was sent to a women’s prison, on the basis of claiming to identify as a woman, to serve his sentence.
Primary schoolchildren are being told to be mindful of their “white privilege” under an anti-racism drive.
A coalition of Sheffield schools has developed lesson plans teaching pupils as young as seven that white people benefit from inherent privilege because of their skin colour and have a responsibility to challenge racism.
In one lesson plan aimed at children aged seven to 11, pupils are given designated time for “empathy building” and says: “In Britain, white people are likely to be privileged by the colour of their skin.
“This privilege arises because they are much less likely to be affected by racist behaviour, including bias, discrimination and verbal and physical abuse.
“Privileged people have a responsibility to reduce racism by: being aware of it; improving their own language and behaviour; challenging their friends’ language and behaviour; reporting incidents of racism; providing support to those who have been harmed by discrimination.”
The teaching materials also tell older students that while black people can hold prejudice against white people, this does not amount to racism.
According to the guidance, racism can only be exercised by those with “cultural power” – such as white people over black people.
The programme is intended to “empower” students and teachers to examine how race education can challenge “the unequal systems that surround us in society”.
Another handout for older teenagers urges students to “think critically” about the role of race in Britain’s criminal justice system, citing that black people are 10 times more likely to stopped and searched by police.
Students are probed: “What is happening? Why is this an example of racism? If race isn’t real, how do you explain this? Has the concept of race led some people to believe that some groups of people are different to others?
“Are certain racial groups being treated differently? Are there other possible explanations for this?”
The teaching school alliance behind the materials is led by Notre Dame High School, a Government-designated national teaching school tasked with supporting educators and school leaders.
Defending the resources, the group said: “Our standalone unit by no means ‘does the job’ of interrupting systemic racism, but we believe it provides an exciting, impactful first step for schools with strong social justice values.”
The initiative has sparked fierce criticism from Conservatives, who have accused schools of stoking divisions and enforcing a political agenda on pupils.
Shadow Education Secretary Laura Trott said: “It is deeply alarming that children as young as seven are being exposed to divisive identity politics in schools under the banner of ‘anti-racism education’.”
She added: “These materials teach children that black prejudice against white people cannot be described as racism, present contested concepts like ‘white privilege’ as unquestionable fact and encourage pupils to see themselves primarily through the lens of race.
“It is hugely damaging and exactly the kind of Left-wing ideological nonsense that should be nowhere near our classrooms.”
Shadow minister Neil O’Brien also vowed the Conservatives would crack down on such teaching if returned to power.
He said: “Kemi Badenoch and the Conservatives are going to come down like a tonne of bricks on this kind of political indoctrination in our schools.
“We will start enforcing the law and rooting out this kind of thing.”
