EUAN McCOLM: in Praise Of JK Rowling

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For many years, now, ladies have been losing tasks after bold to reveal the view that biology is real and crucial.

For years, now, females have been losing tasks after bold to express the view that biology is real and important.


Companies and public bodies, recorded by the needs of extremist trans activists, have actually exacted cruel penalties on those revealing completely mainstream - and legal - views on sex and gender.


Inevitably, tribunals have followed a variety of these cases. During these, we've heard horrifying details of females treated abominably by companies in thrall to advocates who urged and enforced the unlawful adoption of self-ID policies when it concerned single-sex areas.


We have actually heard of females bullied and avoided for questioning the right of those born male to self-identify into females's areas, from altering spaces to domestic violence havens.


Equally undoubtedly, those females capable of resisting have been winning legal actions.


But even a rock solid case does not make it simple to strike back. Good legal representatives are costly and the procedure is draining, both physically and mentally.


For each female who has actually triumphed in court, there are much more for whom introducing a legal case appeared impossible.


The establishment by the author and philanthropist JK Rowling of a fund to support ladies's legal defense of their rights instantly removes any financial barriers to action for those with feasible cases.


Author JK Rowling has established a fund to support women's legal protection of their rights


The intervention of Ms Rowling should, right now, be focusing minds in personnels departments across the nation.


Since the Supreme Court ruled, last month, that sex, in law, was a matter of biology instead of documentation, a variety of organisations - in both the general public and economic sectors - have actually provided declarations announcing their decisions to "think about" the implications for their policies.


This widespread and careless complacency stands to cost business - and taxpayer-funded bodies - dear. The realities are simple. If a service is offered on a single sex basis that means biological sex, not individuality.


The law is the law and no further factor to consider is needed in order for employers to fulfill their obligations under it.


A number of previous legal actions after ladies were unfairly dismissed or bullied out of tasks for declining to agree with the mantra "trans women are females" were possible thanks to the support of online crowd-funding projects. Ms Rowling regularly promoted - and contributed to - such charity events.


Now, she's a one-woman crowd-funder, prepared to back the cases of every lady mistreated at work for speaking the fact about sex.


The JK Rowling Women's Fund will transform the battleground when it comes to women discriminated against for their legitimate, reality-based views.


At the heart of industrial tribunals there may be susceptible individuals playing for high stakes however the human cost means nothing to the insurance companies financing companies' expenses. For them, it's everything about the bottom line and the possibility that every lady with a case now has access to the finest attorneys in the service will, I think, motivate numerous to prompt settlement instead of the humiliation, and inevitable expense, of more doomed defences.


If one needed evidence that women's rights need the fiercest defense, it came in the action to the launch of Ms Rowling's fund.


With tasty pathos, one activist attorney stated online that the Harry Potter creator had "emerged from the shadows" as the funder of what he explained as the "anti feminist biology is destiny movement".


Ms Rowling has never been in the shadows when it pertains to her views on females's rights, has she?


Other reactions were, predictably, more violent in tone.


The continuous tribunal including nurse Sandie Peggie, declaring discrimination and harassment versus NHS Fife and trans-identifying doctor Beth Upton, brought the issue of the method so called "gender important" ladies had actually been treated at work to large attention. This is a case that "cut through" with the general public and required some political leaders to attend to a concern they preferred to avoid.


Scottish Labour's leader Anas Sarwar and his deputy, Jackie Baillie, revealed their assistance for Ms Peggie and declared their belief in the importance of biological sex.


If they 'd understood what they understand now, they added, they would not have actually enacted favour of the SNP's ultimately doomed plan to permit anyone to self-identify into the legally-recognised sex of their picking.


But while the Peggie case and the subsequent judgment on the legal significance of sex by the Supreme Court might have forced a humiliating U-turn by the Labour management on the matter of biological truth, others stay stubbornly committed to defiance of the law.


Naturally, the Scottish Greens - a fantastic Wodehousian satire of an innovative cell - stay dedicated to making use of single-sex spaces by anybody who feels they come from that sex.


There have been current declarations of resistance from trade unions, too. Unison has permitted a trans lady to run for a women-only position on its nationwide executive council.


But every act of performative defiance by well-funded trade unions - or taxpayer-funded local authorities and health boards - is another expensive legal action in the making.


It ought to not have actually been essential for JK Rowling to ensure to underwrite the legal costs of ladies victimized for their views on sex and gender. Nobody needs to ever have lost a job, a promo, or an agreement on the basis of their view that sex is immutable and essential.


Nor should the novelist have felt it essential to establish, in 2022, Beira's Place, a women-only assistance service for victims of sexual violence in the Lothian location.


Ms Rowling's decisions to money Beira's Place and to finance the legal costs of women victimized for believing in the reality of sex are acts of feminist philanthropy which, in a world not made batty by gender ideology, would have been hailed by our politicians.


I know that recognition is the last thing on the writer's mind however isn't it downright odd that, when he broaches the achievements of successful Scots, First Minister John Swinney never discusses the support Beira's Place has provided to hundreds of females?


Money is not the only thing females taking action to defend their rights require. Ask anybody who has been through the tribunal procedure and they'll inform you that the emotional assistance of good friends and allies is necessary.


This comfort will not be in brief supply for those ladies who get backing for their cases from the JK Rowling Women's Fund. The writer is part of a worldwide network of campaigners, fighting to safeguard females's rights against the demands of trans activists, and calls to action and support do not go unheeded.


Let the nation's personnels departments brace themselves. A most exceptional plot twist has simply been written.

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