July 17, 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 Jillian Spencer, an Australian doctor who has recently been cleared of wrongdoing after initially being punished for speaking out about the harms of so-called “gender-affirming care” for minors.
May other doctors please be emboldened to speak up against the scandal of paediatric gender medicine.
Jillian Spencer is a child psychiatrist. In 2023, she was suspended from her clinical duties at Queensland Children’s Hospital after she spoke out about the harms of so-called “gender-affirming care” for kids.
In March of 2025, she gave a speech titled “The Personal Cost of Advocacy,” describing her “experiences raising concerns about the medical scandal of gender interventions for children, whilst also desperately trying to protect [her] job, registration and family.” She said that she would “love to see a reality TV show giving other psychiatrists that challenge to face.”
She was subsequently sent a termination letter in 2025. She has reported that she attempted to raise concerns internally, but that those attempts came to nothing.
A group of doctors sent a letter in her support to the Queensland Minister for Health and Ambulance Services in September of that year.
Earlier this year, she was ejected from a conference for supporting a fellow psychiatrist who had publicly raised similar concerns.
Just this past Sunday, she spoke at a rally in Brisbane, with the likes of Kirralie Smith, Sall Grover, and many others. I have heard from a number of Australian TERFs that the rally was a smashing success. This is part of her speech from that day:
In the face of a medical scandal, there is no honor in keeping quiet. There is no honor in keeping your job if your job involves harming children.
[APPLAUSE]
The public’s trust in medicine will not be maintained by doctors pretending that there isn’t a problem and turning a blind eye to their colleagues, who are prescribing harmful hormonal interventions. These are distressed children, and we have been trusted to help them.
Just a few days ago, she announced that the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) was taking no further action against her and that she gets to keep working as a psychiatrist. I don’t know the ins and outs of her ordeal, but I assume from this that the Australian government had threatened to take her license. She said, “May other doctors please be emboldened to speak up against the scandal of paediatric gender medicine.”
Hear hear!
Jillian, THANK YOU so much for speaking out about this scandal. Thank you for doing all you can to protect children in Australia. Thank you for standing up with all the other brave women in Australia who are speaking out on behalf of women and children. Today’s FFS Friday is for you.
JS has truly accomplished something and in AUS where MEN can legally be WOMEN! This whole thing is reminiscent of a "Sex Matters" podcast that featured Az Hakeem, a London-based, GC psychiatrist and friend of TERFs who was one of the few GC therapists in the UK and who popularized the phrase: "I won't affirm your 'gender identity'." AH was nearly driven out of his profession for presenting data that proved the autism/trans correlation and his subsequent assertion that transmedicalism was 💩 that only benefitted the trans industry--that patients were not getting better. Both of these people, and others like them, are finally being vindicated. For that, let's pop some bottles🍾🍾!
The adjective "brave" has been hijacked by people who have no business embracing it; they aren't qualified and they turned it into a benign, flippant cope. I want that word back.
I used to live in Brisbane. It's a beautiful little city.
But Australia (like Canada and other members of the British Commonwealth) is, by American standards, an odd mixture of political liberalism and social conservatism. That's how a fake "liberal" political lobby like the gender lobby has gotten so deeply entrenched so quickly in an unshakeable conservative mentality among their political leaders.
The Australian people were, of course, not consulted.
America's political system of checks and balances, plus states' rights vs federal oversight, gives us tools to fight our way out of it. But none of the British Commonwealth nations have the same kind of checks and balances, so the fight there is much harder.
Congratulations to Jillian for winning that terrible fight!
In the end, the British Commonwealth will follow where America and the British monarchy lead.