FFS Friday: Sall Grover 4.0

I don't like to swear in public, but bloody, f*cking hell, Sall

May 15, 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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I admit that I struggled with who to celebrate for today’s FFS Friday. Options included the amazing Athena Forum for everything they have accomplished recently, and Olivia Viola and Reese Hogan, two female athletes in California who have been speaking out for female athletes. They all deserve to be honored and celebrated (and will be soon!).

But today, on this day, FFS Friday can celebrate none other than the indomitable Sall Grover, an Australian feminist who has been in court for several years, fighting for her right to maintain a female-only networking app.

I stole this image from Sophia Moermond, an Australian politician.

I have used FFS Friday to celebrate Sall three times, most recently in August of 2025.

Previous FFS Friday posts about Sall are here and here.

In 2020, Sall founded Giggle—a mobile women-only social networking app. It was intended as a platform centered around women connecting with, and supporting, other women. The purpose was to provide an app that allowed women to connect with each other safely. Women could talk about work, travel, dating, mothering, or whatever they wanted to. That was her idea, anyway.

At the time, she had no idea that there were men who call themselves women and demand that everyone on the planet agree that they’re women.

In 2021, a man named Roxanne Tickle complained to the Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) that he had been removed from the app, alleging that the removal constituted discrimination against him under Australian law because he “identifies as a woman.”

This is him:

In December 2022, he filed a lawsuit in federal court, complaining that she was in violation of federal law.

Throughout the hearings, which took place over the course of several weeks, Grover consistently refused to bend to the idea that Tickle is any form of woman. She consistently told the court that she would not address him as “Ms.” and that even if he claims to be female, she will see him as a man.

In August of 2024, the Australian Federal Court ruled that Tickle is a woman because of his woman “gender identity.” I listened while the court read the verdict out loud. The judge repeatedly referred to Mr. Tickle using “she,” “her,” and “Ms.” and to actual women as “cisgender,” and said that sex is changeable. He decided in favor of Mr. Tickle.

While all of this was going on, Sall had a baby. That baby is now a toddler.

Her legal team appealed. The Australian Sex Discrimination Commissioner, Anna Cody, weighed in on the side of Tickle, as did a group called Equality Australia. In her corner, Sall had the Lesbian Action Group.

The proceedings were nothing short of bizarre, but those of us who have been paying attention to so-called “gender identity” have become used to it. British Feminist Jo Bartosch explained it all in an article in Spiked titled, “Australia: land of sun, surf and pregnant men.”

In February of 2025, Sall came to Washington DC for a visit, and we roamed the halls of the three US senate buildings, urging Senate Democrats to vote yes on the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act (not a single Democrat did so). We chatted about our visits in a video that was recorded by the brilliant Holly Stewart outside the Capitol (sincere apologies for the wind!).

Sall was notified earlier this week that a decision in her case would be forthcoming on Friday at 2 p.m. Sydney time. That was midnight for those of us in US Eastern time.

Yesterday, Isabella Cepa posted:

A true survivor. @salltweets no matter the outcome, you’ve carried the weight of making history in your country and the globe for this whole time.

They will never know what it means, because - as it works for many other things - only women can experience it.

My eternal respect.

FFS Friday celebrated Isabella last December. Yesterday, I felt the exact same way that she did about Sall’s perseverance in the face of such unyielding “gender” nonsense.

Earlier today, in a devastating decision, the Federal Court upheld the lower court’s ruling. It said that excluding a man from a female-only network app amounted to an act of discrimination. I dragged myself out of bed at midnight to listen. Then I stayed up for a few hours to commiserate with women in a few X spaces.

My understanding from Australian sisters is that Sall has another avenue of appeal, but I’m not entirely clear on what it is. My understanding from a post by Sall at 4:00 ET this morning is that she intends to take it to the High Court.

Edie Wyatt, another Australian feminist, said in a Substack post:

Today in the Federal Court of Australia, all the things we said would become law, became established in law. By refusing the appeal of Giggle for Girls V Tickle, the Australian Federal Court established that women in public life and business are not legally permitted to make a procedural boundary between women and men who say they are women, in the glorious Commonwealth of Australia.

Sall posted on X:

I am absolutely devastated.

Men who claim to be women have more rights than actual women in Australia.

It is women who are being discriminated against, not the men who claim to be us.

But in a sense, nothing has changed: we will all wake up tomorrow & men will still not be women.

Sall: I hear you. I am devastated with you. This is a terrible outcome. I am with you and all women and girls, today, tomorrow, and the next day, all around the world. I thank you from the bottom of my heart for fighting as hard as you have fought. We’re going to win this eventually. Today’s FFS Friday is for you.

Today and all days: