Judge issues decision after trans user sues female-only app for gender discrimination
A judge in Australia ruled Friday that the owner of a female-only social networking platform discriminated against a transgender woman by removing her from the app because she was born a male.
Reuters reported that Roxanne Tickle sued the Australian app Giggle for Girls, as well as its founder, Sally Grover, for unlawful gender identity discrimination in its services.
The suit claimed Grover removed Tickle’s account from the platform after she saw her photo and “considered her to be male.”
In a landmark decision on gender identity in Australia, the Federal Court — considered to be the country’s second-highest court — ordered Giggle for Girls to pay Tickle 10,000 Australian dollars ($6,700 U.S.) plus legal costs.
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Judge Robert Bromwich, who oversaw the trial, did not order Giggle for Girls to issue a written apology, which Tickle had sought.
“Tickle’s claim of direct gender identity discrimination fails, but her claim of indirect gender identity discrimination succeeds,” Bromwich said.
This is the first time the Australian Federal Court has made a ruling on gender identity discrimination since the Sex Discrimination Act was modified in 2013.
Professor Paula Gerber of Monash University’s Faculty of Law said the court’s decision was “a great win for transgender women in Australia.”
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“This case sends a clear message to all Australians that it is unlawful to treat transgender women differently from cisgender women. It is not lawful to make decisions about whether a person is a woman based on how feminine they appear,” she said.
The platform Giggle for Girls was marketed as a “safe space” for women to share and discuss their experiences. Reuters reported that court filings show the platform had about 20,000 users in 2021.
The company placed a temporary stop to operations in 2022, but Grover says the platform will be relaunched soon.
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In his decision, the judge claimed the platform considered only sex at birth as being a valid basis for a person to claim to be a man or woman.
The plaintiff was born a male and had sex reassignment surgery before Tickle’s birth certificate was updated, Bromwich said.
“Unfortunately, we got the [judgment] we anticipated,” Grover said in a post on X. “The fight for women’s rights continues.”
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Tickle reportedly called the judge’s decision “healing,” after receiving hateful comments online and seeing merchandise created specifically to mock her.
“There is so much hate and bile cast on trans and gender-diverse people simply because of who we are,” Australian media quoted her as saying outside the court.
Police arrest Telegram app founder amid investigation into his business
Billionaire and Telegram messaging app CEO Pavel Durov was arrested in Paris on Saturday night, according to TF1 TV and BFM TV, Reuters reported.
According to TF1, Durov was served an arrest warrant in relation to a preliminary police investigation.
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The investigation is regarding his company’s messaging app, as French police believe there are not enough moderators to keep criminal activity in check, reported TF1.
The CEO was aboard his private jet at Paris-Le Bourget Airport, which formerly served as the French capital’s main airport.
Pavel, a native of Russia, now lives in Dubai and holds a dual citizenship to both the United Arab Emirates and France.
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Telegram is based in Dubai and, according to its own data, has over 900 million monthly active users.
Telegram did not immediately respond to FOX Business’ request for comment.
No. 3 pick of 2021 NFL Draft throws 5 interceptions in preseason game
Trey Lance got the start for the Dallas Cowboys‘ preseason game Saturday, and it’s safe to say it was uneven.
The No. 3 pick of the 2021 draft threw for 323 yards on 67.3% passing, but he also threw five interceptions in a 26-19 loss to the Los Angeles Chargers.
He also was their leading rusher, gaining 90 yards on 11 carries, one of which was a touchdown on a 46-yard run.
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His first pick came in the second quarter at midfield. During his team’s first drive of the third quarter, Lance marched his team into the red zone but threw his second pick of the game going for a touchdown.
After Dallas scored on its next two drives, each of Lance’s final three drives ended in an interception, including a pick-six. All three of those picks came in the final 4:14 of the game, with the final one coming on the last play of the game.
The Cowboys were at the Chargers’ 20-yard line, going for the tie, but Lance’s pass to the end zone was snagged by the Chargers’ Robert Kennedy.
It’s been a rough career so far for Lance, who was drafted by the San Francisco 49ers after they traded up from No. 12 to No. 3 in that draft to snag who they thought was the heir to Jimmy Garoppolo.
After taking over the starting role in 2022, Lance suffered a season-ending injury in Week 2, and the emergence of Brock Purdy pushed Lance to the side.
San Fran traded Lance to Dallas almost exactly one year ago for a fourth-round pick.
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At the moment, Lance figures to be the third-string quarterback behind Dak Prescott and Cooper Rush. The Cowboys declined Lance’s fifth-year option this offseason, so Lance will become a free agent after this year.
Bill Maher calls out liberal network for ‘gushing’ over VP Harris right to anchor’s face
“Real Time” host Bill Maher on Friday talked to CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins and took shots inside the corporate tent with criticisms aimed at CNN’s coverage of the DNC convention.
Maher, whose HBO show airs Saturday nights on CNN (both are sister networks under Warner Bros. Discovery), began the exchange by invoking Collins’ viral moment on “The Late Show” earlier this month when Stephen Colbert’s liberal audience laughed after he referred to CNN as “objective.”
“I’m a big rooter for CNN, but that tells you a lot, doesn’t it?” Maher asked. “How do you guys think you’re doing in that arena of like ‘This is a terribly divided country. We’re not only politicized, a lot of people just hate the other side.’ And CNN, in my view, should be the place where both sides can watch. How do you think you’re doing with that?”
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“CNN is the place where both sides can watch,” Collins firmly responded. “My show is evidence of that. We have lawmakers from both parties. We’ll have Elizabeth Warren on one night, we’ll have Ted Cruz on another night… I mean, look at what just happened in Chicago. WE had 300 people from CNN on the ground covering that convention. There were several reporters from just our team alone on the floor bringing it in real time to people. And I think CNN puts resources behind things, and just brings a level of news that you don’t get anywhere else.”
“I’m talking about the people on CNN,” Maher clarified. “And I know what the conservative side of America thinks. And I don’t blame them.”
Maher then pivoted to CNN’s coverage of Vice President Kamala Harris‘ convention speech Thursday night, noting that she wrapped her speech at “11:09” ET.
“It wasn’t until 11:23 til the one conservative guy. What’s his name?” Maher asked.
“Scott Jennings,” Collins answered.
“Lonely Scott I call him,” Maher quipped. “From 8:09 to 8:23 (PT), they were just gushing about how great a speech it was. And I think she did fine. I didn’t think it was as good as they were making it up to be. But if I’m a conservative in America and I’m watching CNN just for the straight middle of the road, that’s what I hear for 15 minutes. It’s great. And then Lonely Scott.”
“It does look like tokenism. It’s kind of like the same as ‘The View.’ It’s like it’s almost better to have nobody there like MSNBC,” he added.
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Collins pushed back at Maher’s characterization, telling him “I don’t think that you can say that CNN is anything but fair.”
“I feel like I can speak with authority on this,” Collins said. “I’m from Alabama. I’m from a very red state. I have a very conservative family. A lot of them are Trump voters. They watch my show every night, and I think they know that they can trust me, that, you know, we call bulls— on every side, not just whatever leaning our audience may be and I think that’s something that people actually want more of… And everyone who was speaking last night, it’s not like they were all Democrats. I mean, Dana Bash, Jake Tapper, Abby Phillip, all my amazing colleagues. They come across giving analysis.”
“They come across that way,” Maher told Collins. “In a moment like that, it was like five to one. It always looks like five to one.”
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He also offered the same criticism towards CNN’s now-infamous town hall featuring former President Trump last year, pointing out how the live audience was “loving him” and then the network cut to “five people sh—ing on him.”
CNN did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital‘s request for comment.
Hundreds of flights delayed at major airport after ‘possible’ cyberattack
A “possible cyberattack” led to a series of delays at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA) as the Port of Seattle dealt with an “internet and web systems outage” Saturday.
In a statement, the international airport announced that the outages began on Saturday morning, which stemmed from a “possible cyberattack” at the Port of Seattle.
“Earlier this morning, the Port of Seattle experienced certain system outages indicating a possible cyberattack,” authorities said. “The Port isolated critical systems and is in the process of working to restore full service.”
On Saturday, as of 8 p.m. ET, 247 flights had been delayed and six had been canceled at the airport, according to FlightAware.
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The airport noted that it does not have an estimated time for returning to full operational capacity, but is working with authorities and partners to help travelers whose itineraries were impacted by the outage.
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“We are working closely with appropriate authorities and partners to help travelers who may be impacted. If you are traveling today, please check with our airline partners for travel information and allow extra time to get to SEA and to your gate,” the airport said. “To help get through the airport easier, get your mobile boarding pass for your flight and any checked baggage through the airline apps before you get to SEA.”
Transportation authorities also urged passengers traveling at the airport to check in with their airlines for latest information related to their flights.
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They said the outages are impacting some systems at the airport.
The Federal Aviation Administration declined to provide a comment on the delays, referring FOX Business to SEA authorities.
Yesterday in Arizona, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the eldest son of Robert F. Kennedy, Sr. and the best-known surviving scion of the Kennedy family dynasty, took the stage to endorse Donald Trump for president of the United States. It was an iconic and consequential moment: A member of the Kennedy family, royalty in Democratic politics for generations, turning his back on the party of his family’s legacy to endorse a Republican candidate. In so doing, Kennedy did something extraordinary; he stood on principle over politics and embraced actual democracy instead of the rigged candidate system created by the Democratic National Committee.
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In the space of a few sentences, Kennedy erased four days of speeches at the DNC. His clarion call for truth, accountability and the democratic system, has reverberated loudly for many middle of the road voters, people who feel alienated by the politics of both left and right, folks who no longer believe that people in positions of power care about their concerns at all.
Having initially sought the nomination of the Democratic Party, Kennedy was blocked at every turn by President Joe Biden’s supporters in the DNC. They wouldn’t allow debates, wouldn’t allow a full contest for the party’s nomination. Even though Biden was mentally and physically a shell of the man he’d once been, the DNC protected Biden, arguing anyone sharing videos of his clear mental and physical deterioration was participating in “cheap fakes.”
So too did their allies in the left-wing media.
Remember, it was only 60 days ago that CNN, MSNBC, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and other left-wing media allies attacked anyone who dared to suggest Biden was anything other than sharp as a tack behind closed doors.
Kennedy lambasted this in his address Friday afternoon endorsing Trump for president, and articulating the primary challenge of our times quite clearly.
“When a U.S. president colludes with, or outright coerces, media companies to censor political speech, it’s an attack on our most sacred right of free expression,” he said. “And that’s the very right upon which all of our constitutional rights rest.”
Democrats have become so corrupt that even a Kennedy can’t support them any longer.
RFK Jr. asserted that in the 16 months of his campaign, ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, and CNN combined gave him only two live interviews.
“The mainstream media was once the guardian of the First Amendment and democrat principles, but has since joined the systemic attack on democracy,” he said.
To bring this point into clear focus, after ignoring him for 16 months, as soon as he endorsed Trump, CNN had a member of the Kennedy family on last night in primetime to attack RFK Jr. The network that wouldn’t carry Kennedy himself or any of his arguments was happy to offer live primetime guest spots to members of his family who would trash him.
All of this led to what I believe will be seen as an important legacy of the 2024 campaign. Democrats have become so corrupt that even a Kennedy can’t support them any longer. Kennedy’s embrace of Trump, which he compared to Abraham Lincoln’s team of rivals in his address, represents yet another incredible twist in an election season that has so far been propelled by the unexpected.
Less than two months ago, on June 27, Trump took the stage to debate Biden in Atlanta.
I know it feels like two years since then, but consider what has happened since that night. Trump knocked out Biden, ending his political career. It was the first true knockout we’ve ever seen in the history of American presidential debates. It took several weeks — including Trump becoming the first president to be shot by a would-be assassin since Ronald Reagan in 1981 — for Biden to realize he couldn’t get back up off the electoral canvas, but on July 21 — three weeks and three days after the debate — the Biden campaign finally waved the towel in the corner of the ring.
Biden was done.
He withdrew from the race and has barely been seen since.
Next up, Kamala Harris. Yes, the same Kamala Harris who Democrats spent months arguing should be dropped from the political ticket because she was the least popular vice president in the history of modern American politics. Hell, Dick Cheney shot someone in the face while he was vice president(!), and was still more popular than Harris. In one fell swoop, without receiving a single vote for president, Democrats canceled the expressed will of 14 million primary voters and elevated Harris to the nomination.
Amazingly, Harris, who has never received a single vote for president, is the nominee.
Yes, the same Harris who dropped out of the 2020 presidential race before a single vote had been cast. The same Harris who most with functional brains realize would have never been the Democrat nominee if Biden had done what he should have done and announced he wasn’t running in the late spring of 2023. That would have allowed an actual Democratic primary but, alas, we’ve all come to realize Democrats don’t want elections, they want selections.
Hillary Clinton in 2016, Biden in 2020, now Harris in 2024. They’re all the product of the people running the DNC, the hand-selected nominees of the party, will of the voters be damned.
The party that claims Trump is a threat to democracy has now, incredibly, charged Trump with felonies in three different states and Washington, D.C., seeking jail time in each case, removed the president who received the Democrat nomination for president and replaced him with a nominee who received not a single vote for that nomination, fought every third party challenger, including Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the green party, Cornel West, and the libertarian party, who has sought ballot access in the 2024 election, and dutifully hidden Harris from all media, refusing all interview requests and all press conference availabilities.
This is not the democratic process. This is not how candidates should be chosen.
Kennedy realized all of this.
It’s why he couldn’t stand silently by and allow himself to be a spoiler in this race. It’s why he felt compelled to speak out, stand on principle, and endorse the only presidential candidate who actually won a primary, to support the only presidential candidate who supports free speech and believes in sharing his vision for the world.
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Ultimately, even if it required him to turn his back on the party that made his family a mythological heir to Camelot, Kennedy had only one choice.
The result — Trump and Kennedy are now a team.
Thanks to the bevy of interviews, press conferences, and public events both men have had, we know exactly where Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy stand on all the issues. But we still don’t have a single policy page on Harris’ website. Her team has spent more time telling us what she doesn’t believe than what she does.
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Harris is the phantom candidate, a smiley-faced emoticon gazing back at you from a computer screen as her videos play on social media influencer pages fed to our young by an algorithmic rig job perpetrated by our online billionaire lords, a constant loop of vacuous nothingness, as deep and complex as the number of votes she received for the most important job in the world — a rigged candidate from a rigged party, the antithesis of American democracy, the only person in any of our lives to ever run for president without a single person voting for them.
So now, here we are, it’s Harris vs. Trump and Kennedy, and if you’re paying attention to the slightest degree, even if you’re a lifelong Democrat like Kennedy, it isn’t a tough call at all.
It’s Trump or nothing.
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High school quarterback dies after brain injury in opening night game
A high school football player in Alabama died Saturday after suffering a brain injury in his team’s home opener Friday night.
Morgan Academy junior quarterback Caden Tellier received a blow to the head during the third quarter of his team’s 30-22 win against Southern Academy in Selma, Alabama. He was airlifted by helicopter to University of Alabama Birmingham Hospital.
Morgan Academy headmaster Bryan Oliver told Fox News Digital Tellier died from his injuries Saturday evening.
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“It is with a heavy heart that I must inform you that Caden Tellier has gone to be with his Lord and Savior. Caden loved the Lord with all his heart and was a shining light every day he graced the halls of Morgan Academy. He was a student, a friend, an athlete and, most important, a Christ follower,” Oliver said.
“There are no words to describe how we feel as a school community and family. We will come together and support Jamie, Arsella and Lyla with our whole hearts. We offer our deepest sympathy to the Telliers’ extended family as well. I want to thank all the schools and individuals that have reached out during this difficult time. Caden will never be forgotten for who he was and what he means to Morgan Academy.”
Earlier Saturday, there was social media confusion about Tellier’s health when a statement from Alabama Independent School Association Executive Director Michael McLendon was posted on the association’s Facebook page. The initial statement, which went up before noon ET, indicated the school had been dealt a “tragic loss” regarding Tellier.
However, that post was deleted and replaced with a new statement that was posted around 1:20 p.m. ET that clarified Tellier had suffered a “tragic injury” and was in critical condition at the time. However, he died later that day.
McLendon added the school is “suspending” all school activities in the coming week.
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“As a small school, Morgan Academy feels this tragedy even more deeply, and the Alabama Independent School Association is here to offer any support and resources to support them as they grieve,” he said.
Tellier played both football and baseball for Morgan Academy. During his first year as the varsity starter as a sophomore in 2023, he threw for 1,228 yards with seven touchdowns and four interceptions in eight games. In baseball last spring, he hit .311 with two home runs and 10 RBIs.
Tellier’s death comes just nine days after a fellow Alabama high school football player, 14-year-old New Brockton High School freshman Semaj Wilkins, died Aug. 15 after collapsing during a practice.
Jennifer Lopez shows Ben Affleck what he’s missing in sultry revenge photo
Jennifer Lopez is showing she’s unfazed after her dramatic split from Ben Affleck.
The “I’m Real” singer returned to social media after filing for divorce from the Hollywood actor after two years of marriage.
The 55-year-old pop star took to Instagram to share a sultry selfie, her first post since court documents were submitted for the couple’s divorce.
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The “Atlas” actress was glammed up with her blonde hair flowing with big, voluminous curls over her shoulders. Lopez wore a pink sweatshirt and looked intently into what appeared to be a camera phone.
In the background, a Christmas tree and presents were displayed, along with a clothes rack, and the selfie was shared by a fan account.
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The snapshot appeared to be from December 2020 after celebrity hairstylist Chris Appleton shared a similar photo on his account at the time. He described the look as “Deluxe Glam Barbie.”
Lopez’s social media post comes after she filed for divorce from Affleck Tuesday in Los Angeles County Superior Court.
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According to documents obtained by Fox News Digital, the divorce filings cited “irreconcilable differences” as the reason for their split.
The “Love Don’t Cost a Thing” singer listed their date of separation as April 26. Lopez additionally stated she did not want either her or Affleck to be awarded spousal support, according to the court documents.
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Lopez filed the divorce papers on the two-year anniversary of the couple’s Georgia wedding ceremony.
Affleck, 52, and Lopez, 55, first said “I do” during a surprise Las Vegas wedding in July 2022.
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Court documents at the time showed Lopez, listed as “Party 2,” requesting a “new name” on their marriage certificate filing, which was first received July 16 and filed with the Clark County Clerk’s Office the following day.
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Affleck is listed as “Party 1” on the document, with his full name recorded as “Benjamin Geza Affleck.” Lopez had legally taken her husband’s last name and changed her name to “Jennifer Lynn Affleck.”
One month after their Las Vegas nuptials, the newlyweds hosted a backyard ceremony for friends and family at the $8 million Georgia mansion Affleck purchased when the couple first began dating 20 years ago.