FFS Friday: Jennifer Melle

January 23, 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 celebrates Jennifer Melle, who recently declared victory in a major employment case in the UK (but I would be remiss if I didn’t at least mention Glenna Goldis, so I will).

Photo: Sex Matters

On Tuesday, after much deliberation, I decided that this week’s FFS Friday just had to celebrate Jennifer Melle, who has won an important victory in an employment case in the UK.

But then, on Thursday, Glenna Goldis announced that she has been sacked from her job at the New York Attorney General’s office. Glenna was anonymous, using the social media handle @unyieldingbicyclist for several years, before she started TERFing on Main in late 2024. That’s gotten her in a heap of trouble with her (now former) boss, New York Attorney General Leticia James. So I thought I might switch it all up and make today’s FFS Friday about Glenna.

James thinks it’s absolutely critical that children have access to hormones that will harm them and has even led a coalition of 15 other states and the District of Columbia in “suing the Trump administration for attacking access to gender-affirming health care for transgender and nonbinary youth.”

On March 1, 2024, James “kicked off” Women’s History Month with an inspiring message. Unfortunately, on the very same day, Attorney General James threatened to take legal action against a county executive who had issued a local executive order protecting women’s and girls’ sports. James called the order “illegal and transphobic.”

Attorney General James has also gotten herself involved in some very strange things in Colorado. This is an actual headline in the Post Millennial from March 1, 2024 (the exact same day James was “kicking off” Women’s History Month):

This is how that article begins:

Letitia James wants to force Christian baker Jack Phillips of Colorado to make a cake celebrating gender transition for the same individual who requested a cake with a dildo-licking Satan topper in celebration of the Satan's birthday. In addition to posting her opposition to the baker's right to religious liberty, James is one of 18 attorneys general who filed an amicus brief in support of Autumn Scardinia, a trans-identified Satanist who dragged Phillips into court alleging discrimination.

This is what James had to say about the situation:

Masterpiece Cakeshop, a Colorado bakery, refused to make a customer a cake when they found out it was to celebrate her transition. This bakery has discriminated against LGBTQ+ people before, and I'm urging the Colorado Supreme Court to stop this transphobic discrimination.

I wrote about it (sorry, most of the substance is behind a paywall).

Why the Attorney General of the fine state of New York wants to force a Colorado cake baker to make a cake with a “dildo-licking Satan topper in celebration of Satan's birthday” is a complete mystery to me. She seems to think that refusing to make such a cake is “transphobic.” Whatever, I don’t make the rules around here.

In any event, GO GLENNA! You have my complete support.

However, the main point of this post is to celebrate Jennifer Melle.

Here is a summary of the events leading up to Tuesday’s victory, according to the group Sex Matters:

Jennifer Melle is a senior nurse at St Helier Hospital, part of Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust. She has worked in the NHS for 12 years.

In May 2024, during an evening shift, Melle encountered Patient X, a convicted paedophile from a high-security men’s prison. Patient X is a man who identifies as a woman and is listed as male in medical records.

While speaking to a doctor outside the patient’s room about catheter removal, Melle referred to the patient as “he” and “Mr” in a clinical context. Overhearing this, the patient became aggressive. He verbally abused Melle with racist slurs, calling her the N-word multiple times, and physically lunged at her while restrained. Melle explained that she could not use female pronouns due to her Christian faith but offered to use the patient’s chosen name.

Despite the patient’s abusive and threatening behaviour, Melle was given a final written warning, referred to the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), and placed under investigation for potentially breaching professional conduct guidelines. The NMC code states that nurses should not express personal beliefs “in an inappropriate way”, even for religious reasons.

Melle maintains that she acted professionally, prioritised patient safety, and is being punished for expressing her Christian beliefs. She also noted that a white colleague used male pronouns for the same patient but was not investigated.

On Tuesday, she won the right to keep her job after the NHS dropped the investigation.

The Dutch/British YouTuber Mr. Menno was on the scene and interviewed her, while she held a sign that read, “I called a male convicted paedophile ‘Mr’ and have been suspended ever since.” She said, “I got racist abuse and nearly attacked for calling a man a man.” You can watch it on Facebook here.

She will be on Free Speech Nation with Josh Howie at GB News this Sunday at 2:00 p.m. ET. (along with UK women’s rights campaigner Kellie-Jay Keen). Americans can watch live on the GB News YouTube channel.

This never should have happened. She never should have been disciplined for referring to a man as a man. But this is the world in which we live and I am glad she has been vindicated.

Jennifer, thank you for fighting and for standing up for what is real and true. Women and girls everywhere owe you. I’m so sorry this happened to you in the first place, but I was thrilled to hear about your victory. Well done! Today’s FFS Friday is for you.