May 22, 2026
FFS (Female Free Speech) Friday honors women and girls who are speaking out about the harms that “gender identity” poses to women and girls as a sex class. Thanks so much to Amy Sousa (@KnownHeretic on X) for a lovely post appreciating the series.
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Today’s FFS Friday honors Dora Moutot, a French feminist who has been convicted of a criminal offense and ordered to pay a fine. Her crime? Uttering the words “As women, we are compelled to be wary of people with penises.”
It is unacceptable that a woman can be criminally convicted for expressing, in a debate of general interest, a concern related to women's safety and the reality of biological sex.
I first wrote about Dora and her colleague Marguerite Stern nearly two years ago, in May of 2024, when I explained that they had published a book that year titled Transmania: enquête sur les dérives de l’idéologie transgenre (Transmania: An Investigation into the Abuses of Transgender Ideology).
If I’ve got this right (and I could be wrong), today is Dora’s birthday. The reason I think that is this X post by Marguerite, from this day in 2024:
Someone, please tell me if my French has gotten so bad that I am misunderstanding that post.
On May 20 of this year, she posted (in English) that she had been convicted of a criminal offense.
Her offense was uttering the following words on television: “As women, we are compelled to be wary of people with penises.”
She has explained:
I had spoken out on the internet some time ago, saying that allowing men to change their civil status to be recognized as women raised concrete questions about women’s rights, protection and spaces.
I felt it was perfectly legitimate and necessary to question this and open a debate.
I quickly realized that my stance was controversial, because, for daring to express this position, I was the target of enormous harassment .
I believe that few people truly realize what my colleague Marguerite Stern and I experienced, even before we later wrote our book Transmania.
We have done extensive archival work on this harassment, which you can consult here , where we have analyzed the multiple techniques used by our harassers (very creative, it must be said!).
I have been targeted by activists who have explicitly called for violent acts to be committed against me, even for my murder, with cries of “one TERF, one bullet” or “Dora Moutot to the bottom of the Rhine”.
Others published opinion pieces urging people to “settle things with knives,” while still others posted calls on social media to “burn” and “smash” me, promising to set up “fundraisers to pay the legal fees” of those who resorted to such violence.
I know firsthand what this feels like. I have been physically assaulted with hands, full metal cans, eggs, and umbrellas.
All for speaking up on behalf of women and girls as a discrete sex class that does not include men who call themselves women.
This is what it’s like. And yet, no one believes us.
As she explains in her recent Substack post about the conviction (which you can read in English):
This is particularly concerning women’s freedom of expression, as it is now apparently formally forbidden to call for distrust of the opposite sex.
My lawyers and I will obviously appeal, and if necessary, we will take it all the way to the Court of Cassation.What is at stake here goes far beyond my personal case.
It is unacceptable that a woman can be criminally convicted for expressing, in a debate of general interest, a concern related to women’s safety and the reality of biological sex.
This is, in a word, insane. Or, in the words of Róisín Michaux, a contributor to the upcoming book TERFLandia: How the Global Terven Will Win the Gender Wars, this conviction is “shocking.”
She has been convicted of a criminal offense for saying words.
On the literal day following Dora’s conviction, three teenage boys in the UK were given rehabilitation orders after having been convicted of gang raping two girls. The boys filmed the rapes. They laughed at the girls while they raped them.
Judge Nicholas Rowland, sentencing all three boys to youth rehabilitation orders, said: “I think of you as very young and none of you have been in any big trouble before. You have all done very well with the restrictions put in place throughout the trial.”
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During the sentencing hearing, one of their victims said: “All I want to do is die.” Reading a witness impact statement, the 15-year-old girl said: “This case has affected my everyday life in ways I could have never imagined.” In a poem she read to the court, she said: “All I want to do is die, I no longer have fear for when that comes.”
The second girl told the court: “There are days where I feel emotionally numb and detached from those around me.”
Those three boys gang raped the two girls with their penises. They filmed it and laughed about it. They were convicted on a total of ten rape charges. And they were all spared prison. The judge said, “None of you need to go to prison today.” And they all walked free.
And yet, Dora Moutot can be convicted of a criminal offense for saying that women and girls need to be wary of people with penises.
I guess those three boys and that UK judge just proved Dora’s point quite effectively.
Dora: Thank you. Thanks to you and Marguerite for writing that book. Thank you for persevering. There are women all over the world who will stand proudly with you. I’m so sorry you have to endure this utter nonsense. As my friend Lierre Keith says, “Never Surrender!” Today’s FFS Friday is for you. And HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
Sometimes, I save your posts so that I can recall specific events when speaking to someone about women's issues in this melee. Sometimes, like today, I cringe so much at what is the truth before us, that I am loathe to save, and re-read the post. This is one of those posts. I can hardly read it without crying and and shrinking within myself. I can hardly be civil, I get so angry. But I will save it, because it is the basis on which our current misogynistic culture stands. Men and boys can rape, women cannot even speak. The Epstein class escapes even the visible light of day, and the victims are left with no voice.
I’m just now grasping the double-entendre of FFS, for fucks’ sake! 🤬🤬🤬 This was hard to read but it’s also important to recognize Dora and know who she is, so thank you Kara. I hope and believe she’ll feature in future stories that will have us all standing up to cheer. Today we’ll seethe in solidarity.