The Federal Court of Australia ruled on Friday that a women-only social media platform unlawfully discriminated against a transgender woman by banning her from the app and doubled the damages awarded to her. The court said Roxanne Tickle’s exclusion from Giggle for Girls amounted to unlawful discrimination on the basis of gender identity , and increased the damages awarded to her from £5,361 to £10,722. It also ordered the platform to pay legal costs amounting to £26,805, according to the Guardian . The case, originally filed in December 2022, is believed to be the first gender-identity discrimination matter to reach the federal court since protections relating to gender identity were added to the Sex Discrimination Act in 2013. Giggle for Girls was launched in 2020 by Australian writer and app developer Sall Grover as a women-only social networking platform and digital “safe space” for women.…