FFS Friday: Frances Staudt

February 21, 2025

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. FFS Friday posts are free and shareable. If you would like access to content that delves deeper into the movement to protect the sex-based rights of women and girls and to stop the abolition of sex, please consider a paid subscription.

Today’s FFS Friday honors Frances Staudt, who has filed an administrative complaint before the Department of Education against Tumwater School District (TSD) in Washington state. She is represented by the group Foundation Against Intolerance & Racism. Frances is fifteen years old and plays girls’ basketball at TSD. Earlier this month, she noticed during a warm-up session to a game that the opposing team appeared to include a male athlete. When she complained, school officials did nothing, and she chose to remove herself from the game for her own safety.

According to the complaint:

During the warm-up session before the TSD girls’ junior varsity basketball game, Ms. Staudt noticed that a player on the opposing team was a male. Upon inquiry made to TSD Principal Zach Suderman and TSD Athletic Director Jordan Magrath, it was confirmed that the TSD school officials had advanced notice that a member of the opposing team was, in fact, a male. Citing a Washington Interscholastic Activities Association (“WIAA”) policy that allows athletes to play on the team that aligns with their “gender identity,” both Suderman and Magrath rejected Ms. Staudt’s plea to either remove the male or stop the game entirely. Mr. Suderman stated that the male player could not be removed due to the WIAA policy against gender-identity-based discrimination. To this, Ms. Staudt responded that it is actually the failure to remove a male from the basketball game meant for girls that constitutes discrimination. Principal Suderman then ridiculed Ms. Staudt’s mother by asking her, “Are you telling me that your daughter will never get knocked down or potentially injured by someone bigger, stronger and faster than she is while playing sports?"

Once it became clear that TSD officials would not take action to protect the sex-based rights of female athletes, Ms. Staudt was forced to withdraw herself from participation in the game.

The complaint is short, and worth reading in its entirety. It points to many of the numerous recent executive orders affirming that sex is real, including under Title IX, and protecting female-only sports. It also explains the numerous ways in which TSD is in violation of those orders.

This is happening in the state of Washington, which is one of the states suing the administration over its order protecting children from harmful hormones and surgeries.

I don’t typically print the names of minors, but the male athlete in question has spoken out using his chosen name of Andi Rooks. This is how he explains his female “gender identity:”

Andi said she’s known she was a girl since she was little. Even at 4 years old, she remembers wanting to play with Barbie dolls instead of monster trucks. “I enjoy putting on a dress, I enjoy doing my hair. I enjoy doing my makeup.”

And there you have “gender identity” summed up in a nutshell: girls are people who play with Barbie dolls instead of monster trucks and enjoy putting on dresses and doing hair and makeup. In Washington state (and elsewhere), any boy who enjoys these activities gets to be considered a girl by school officials and compete in girls’ sports.

This harms everyone. “Gender identity” is the most sexist and homophobic “movement” imaginable.

The state of Washington has made it clear that it has no intention of following any of the recent executive orders. But Frances isn’t having it. She’s standing up to her school and to her state. Frances, if you are reading this, today’s FFS Friday is for you.