FFS Friday: Kris Nangle

July 10, 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 Kris Nangle, who recently came out swinging in a public Facebook post about the material reality of sex, the ignored voices of women and girls (including me!), and the fight to protect the sex-based rights of women and girls.

(Her Facebook banner image)

This is what she said (very lightly edited for clarity):

I want to talk about invisibility and dismissal. Specifically female invisibility and dismissal.

(Which is actually connected to why I left the Democratic Party after a lifetime a little over a year ago, but more on that later.)

So I’ve been watching a trend in the world of media and politics happening over the course of around the last 7 or 8 years that I - as a woman and feminist - have found deeply disturbing.

The zenith of this trend was a media orgy in the last 72 hours or so since the release of the SCOTUS ruling on whether or not States can legally restrict eligibility for girls’ and women’s sports to females.

Amongst the hyperbolic and frankly dishonest coverage, I noted over and over in a majority of the mainstream media an almost complete absence of one thing: the voices and opinions of the female athletes and advocates who fought very hard for this ruling for years - especially by those women and orgs on the (surprise!) left, including Democrats.

How many of them did you see or hear from in the coverage you watched or read? How many of the stories were framed from THEIR point of view? How many stories described the ruling only as a loss for trans-identified male athletes and not as a victory for girls and women? That is female invisibility and dismissal.

You would never know it from the coverage & framing but this moment has been worked towards in a BI-PARTISAN manner for well over ten years. Radical feminist groups and grassroots Democratic women’s groups lobbied, funded, and organized to get laws changed and this issue before the Courts. That is female invisibility and dismissal.

And this has been going on for YEARS. And it’s not just on the sports story.

I have watched as these female athletes first attempted to get their message out about what they were experiencing through the mainstream media - they went there first - but were either flat out ignored or treated as villains.

I have watched as Democratic women have attempted to lobby their elected Democratic officials on a multitude of now “verboten” issues - including sports - related to girls and women and were refused meetings or blown off.

I have watched women who have gone to the mainstream media and Democratic officials in an attempt to get action on some truly important stories related to the safety of women and get absolutely nowhere.

All of that is female invisibility and dismissal.

But do you know who HAS listened to all of those women? FOX News and the GOP.

By refusing to engage the women - who came to THEM first - Democrats handed this issue to the GOP on a silver platter, and they ran with it and have politically benefited from it. It repulses me. It came down to the GOP and this Court to protect the Title IX rights of girls and women.

Now. To my personal breaking point.

After many years of phone calls and emails and letters and advocacy to the media and Democrats on the sports issue, I saw a report by a small, online women’s media group on a female inmate being sexually assaulted in a women’s correctional facility by a male inmate. Not a guard, a fellow prisoner. Who was male.

I was stunned.

I had no idea how this could have happened and began researching. I discovered it was not only happening in that one facility but happening in many other facilities across the country. In fact, two women in a California women’s prison facility had been raped by a male inmate. Turns out that in every women’s prison facility where males have been transferred into women have experienced rape, sexual harassment, assault, and pregnancy. I was also horrified to find out women who complained about their treatment by these male inmates were treated as “problem” inmates, and some were even penalized for speaking out.

Of course, like any normal person, I thought this was insane.

So I wrote to the media about something I thought would be a HUGE story. I called, I emailed, I tagged on social media. I did the same to my local, State, and national Democratic officials - members of my own Party and the people I have voted for repeatedly - surely they would want to do something about this terrible injustice?? I joined with other Democratic women in advocating for a bad policy to be changed. Over and over and over I did that. For YEARS.

And? Nothing. No change.

That. ALL of that is female invisibility and dismissal. And by “the Party of women”, to boot.

So, I took to heart the sentiment in my FB profile header and left. I am now an independent voter. And I’m going to stay that way until the invisibility and dismissal ends.

I’m going to end by giving a big shout out to some of the feminists, feminist orgs, and Democratic women who stepped up on the sports fight - these are certainly not the only ones, the army was legions - but they’re the ones I know personally. Thank you Women’s Liberation Front Women’s Declaration International USA Icons Champion Women Nancy Hogshead Kara Dansky Lierre Keith.

And if you want to know more about what’s happening to female inmates in our prisons please check out Amie Ichikawa and her org Woman II Woman.

Oh, and don’t fucking vote for Scott Wiener - it was his bill SB132 that allows ANY male who “identifies” as a woman - no transition or diagnosis of gender dysphoria required - to request a transfer to women’s prisons. There are currently over 50 males already transferred to the two overcrowded women facilities with another 400 requests. Who could have guessed unscrupulous men would take advantage of such lax requirements??? Wiener has known for years about the rapes, assaults, and harassment and has refused to offer a legislative fix. Fuck him.

I do my best to avoid swearing in public, but honestly, you’ve got to love the sound of a woman who has had it.

And there are some excellent comments on her post.

I remain a registered Democrat for a variety of reasons, one of which is that if a pollster ever calls me to get my thoughts on these matters, I will be able to say truthfully that I am a Democrat who supports women’s sex-based rights. But I have not cast a vote for a Democrat on a ballot since I cast my vote for Biden-Harris in 2020 (and I immediately regretted that decision when Biden signed an executive order shredding women’s rights on his first day of taking office). I cannot blame or be upset at anyone, like Kris, who has left the Democratic Party over this issue.

Kris, thank you for this post. Thank you for everything you have done over the years. Your calls, your emails, your media submissions. All of it. You’re right. We would not be here were it not for countless women (especially feminists!) who have been pushing with all our might over the past decade. We won that Supreme Court victory (this isn’t over, but that win was important). For female athletes and for all women and girls. We did it together. Today’s FFS Friday is for you.