EUAN McCOLM: in Praise Of JK Rowling

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

For years, now, women have been losing tasks after daring to reveal the view that biology is genuine and crucial.


Companies and public bodies, recorded by the needs of extremist trans activists, have exacted harsh punishments 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 information of females treated abominably by companies in thrall to advocates who prompted and implemented the unlawful adoption of self-ID policies when it concerned single-sex spaces.


We've heard of women bullied and shunned for questioning the right of those born male to self-identify into females's spaces, from changing rooms to domestic violence sanctuaries.


Equally inevitably, those women capable of battling back have actually been winning legal actions.


But even a rock solid case does not make it simple to retaliate. Good lawyers are costly and the process is draining pipes, both physically and emotionally.


For each female who has actually thrived in court, there are numerous more for whom introducing a legal case appeared difficult.


The facility by the author and benefactor JK Rowling of a fund to support females's legal security of their rights immediately removes any financial barriers to action for those with feasible cases.


Author JK Rowling has established a fund to support females's legal security of their rights


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


Since the Supreme Court ruled, last month, that sex, in law, referred biology rather than paperwork, a variety of organisations - in both the general public and economic sectors - have actually released declarations announcing their choices to "consider" the implications for their policies.


This extensive and careless complacency stands to cost business - and taxpayer-funded bodies - dear. The facts are easy. If a service is used on a single sex basis that indicates biological sex, not individual identity.


The law is the law and no additional factor to consider is required in order for employers to satisfy their obligations under it.


A number of past legal actions after females were unjustly dismissed or bullied out of jobs for declining to agree with the mantra "trans ladies are females" were possible thanks to the assistance of online crowd-funding projects. Ms Rowling often promoted - and contributed to - such fundraisers.


Now, she's a one-woman crowd-funder, all set to back the cases of every female wronged at work for speaking the fact about sex.


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


At the heart of commercial tribunals there might be vulnerable people betting high stakes however the human expense means absolutely nothing to the insurers financing employers' costs. For them, it's everything about the bottom line and the prospect that every lady with a case now has access to the finest legal representatives in the service will, I believe, encourage lots of to urge settlement rather than the humiliation, and inevitable cost, of more doomed defences.


If one needed evidence that females's rights are in need of the fiercest protection, it can be found in the response to the launch of Ms Rowling's fund.


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


Ms Rowling has never ever remained in the shadows when it concerns her views on ladies's rights, has she?


Other responses were, naturally, more violent in tone.


The continuous tribunal including nurse Sandie Peggie, claiming discrimination and harassment versus NHS Fife and trans-identifying physician Beth Upton, brought the problem of the method so called "gender important" women had been dealt with at work to broad attention. This is a case that "cut through" with the public and forced some politicians to attend to a problem they chose to avoid.


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


If they 'd known what they know now, they added, they would not have enacted favour of the SNP's eventually doomed strategy to enable anybody to self-identify into the legally-recognised sex of their choosing.


But while the Peggie case and the subsequent ruling on the legal significance of sex by the Supreme Court might have required a humiliating U-turn by the Labour leadership on the matter of biological reality, others remain stubbornly dedicated to defiance of the law.


Naturally, the Scottish Greens - a fantastic Wodehousian satire of an advanced cell - stay committed to the use of single-sex spaces by anybody who feels they belong to that sex.


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


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


It needs to not have been necessary for JK Rowling to ensure to finance the legal costs of ladies discriminated against for their views on sex and gender. Nobody should ever have lost a job, a promotion, or an agreement on the basis of their view that sex is immutable and essential.


Nor should the author have actually felt it needed to develop, in 2022, Beira's Place, a women-only assistance service for victims of sexual violence in the Lothian area.


Ms Rowling's decisions to fund Beira's Place and to underwrite the legal expenses of ladies discriminated against for believing in the truth 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 understand that recognition is the last thing on the writer's mind but isn't it downright strange that, when he talks of the accomplishments of successful Scots, First Minister John Swinney never ever points out the assistance Beira's Place has offered to hundreds of ladies?


Money is not the only thing women taking action to protect their rights need. Ask anybody who has actually been through the tribunal process and they'll tell you that the psychological assistance of pals and allies is important.


This convenience will not be in brief supply for those ladies who get backing for their cases from the JK Rowling Women's Fund. The writer belongs to an international network of advocates, combating to safeguard ladies's rights versus the demands of trans activists, and contacts us to action and support do not go unheeded.


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

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