FFS Friday: Keira Bell

October 11, 2024

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 Keira Bell, who bravely challenged the Tavistock “gender identity” clinic that had given her puberty blockers and testosterone and removed her healthy breasts. Although she eventually lost her appeal, she has been speaking out about the case ever since.

Her X bio (@KLBfax):

I like Drumming, Dancing & JUSTICE

Was a 16 y/o patient of Tavi GIDS who went rogue.

Photo: Persuasion (Paul Cooper/Shutterstock)

As I go on with my life, I plan to continue to be an activist on behalf of this cause. I want the message of cases like mine to help protect other kids from taking a mistaken path. This year, I helped create the first Detrans Awareness Day, on March 12. I hope that, in years to come, this day can be a beacon to empower others.

- Keira Bell

You can read Keira’s story in her own words here. She reports that after a difficult childhood, and as she grew into a teenager, she started to feel attracted to girls. She was asked by people in her life if she wanted to be a boy, and she thought that maybe she did. So she was sent to the Gender Identity Development Service at the Tavistock and Portman clinic in London where, after a series of superficial conversations with social workers, she was put on puberty blockers at age 16 and testosterone at 17. She had a double mastectomy at 20. She says that by then, she had a more masculine build, a man’s voice, and a man’s beard. She assumed the name Quincy, after Quincy Jones.

In her story, she talks about the consequences of the hormones and surgery: possible infertility, loss of her breasts and inability to breastfeed, atrophied genitals, a permanently changed voice, and facial hair. Several years later, she stopped ingesting testosterone and accepted herself as a woman and as a lesbian (she’s a “detransitioner”).

In 2020, she sued the Tavistock, arguing that she hadn’t been able to consent to what happened to her. She initially won her judgment in December of that year, but an appellate court overturned that decision the following year.

While her case was on appeal, she said, “As I go on with my life, I plan to continue to be an activist on behalf of this cause. I want the message of cases like mine to help protect other kids from taking a mistaken path. This year, I helped create the first Detrans Awareness Day, on March 12.  I hope that, in years to come, this day can be a beacon to empower others.”

And she has done that. She recently sat down for an interview with British journalist Andrew Gold for his series “heretics.” You can watch the entire interview on his YouTube channel, and it’s definitely worth an hour of your time. She notes that she has been called a traitor to the “trans” movement and says she considers it a “badge of honor” to be considered a “traitor” to such a “disgusting ideology” and to the “depraved individuals” who push it.

Keira, if you’re reading this, thank you for continuing to tell your story. Thank you for advocating for other young people who may be going through something similar to what you went through. Today’s FFS Friday is for you.