EUAN McCOLM: in Praise Of JK Rowling

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

Companies and public bodies, recorded by the demands of extremist trans activists, have actually exacted terrible penalties on those revealing perfectly mainstream – and legal – views on sex and gender.

Inevitably, tribunals have actually followed a number of these cases. During these, we have actually heard terrible details of women dealt with abominably by employers in thrall to advocates who advised and enforced the unlawful adoption of self-ID policies when it pertained to single-sex spaces.

We’ve heard of ladies bullied and shunned for questioning the right of those born male to self-identify into ladies’s spaces, from altering spaces to domestic violence refuges.

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

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

For each lady who has triumphed in court, there are much more for whom launching a legal case seemed impossible.

The facility by the author and philanthropist JK Rowling of a fund to support females’s legal protection of their rights immediately eliminates any financial barriers to action for those with practical cases.

Author JK Rowling has actually developed a fund to support ladies’s legal defense of their rights

The intervention of Ms Rowling should, today, be focusing minds in human resources departments across the country.

Since the Supreme Court ruled, last month, that sex, in law, referred biology rather than documentation, a number of organisations – in both the general public and economic sectors – have actually issued declarations announcing their choices to “consider” the implications for their policies.

This widespread and reckless complacency stands to cost companies – and taxpayer-funded bodies – dear. The facts are basic. If a service is offered on a single sex basis that indicates biological sex, not individuality.

The law is the law and no more factor to consider is needed in order for companies to fulfill their commitments under it.

A variety of previous legal actions after ladies were unjustly dismissed or bullied out of jobs for declining to concur with the mantra “trans females are females” were possible thanks to the assistance of online crowd-funding projects. Ms Rowling often promoted – and donated to – such fundraising events.

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

The JK Rowling Women’s Fund will change the battleground when it comes to ladies victimized for their legitimate, reality-based views.

At the heart of commercial tribunals there might be susceptible people betting high stakes but the human expense implies nothing to the insurers financing employers’ costs. For them, it’s all about the bottom line and the possibility that every lady with a case now has access to the very best attorneys in business will, I think, motivate many to prompt settlement instead of the humiliation, and inevitable cost, of more doomed defences.

If one needed evidence that women’s rights require the fiercest security, it was available in the reaction to the launch of Ms Rowling’s fund.

With scrumptious pathos, one activist attorney stated online that the Harry Potter creator had “emerged from the shadows” as the funder of what he described as the “anti feminist biology is fate movement”.

Ms Rowling has never remained in the shadows when it comes to her views on women’s rights, has she?

Other actions were, naturally, more violent in tone.

The continuous tribunal including nurse Sandie Peggie, claiming discrimination and harassment against NHS Fife and trans-identifying doctor Beth Upton, brought the concern of the way so called “gender vital” women had actually been treated at work to large attention. This is a case that “cut through” with the general public and required some politicians to resolve a concern they chose to prevent.

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

If they ‘d known what they understand now, they included, they would not have voted in favour of the SNP’s eventually doomed plan to enable anyone 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 forced an embarrassing U-turn by the Labour management on the matter of biological truth, others remain stubbornly dedicated to defiance of the law.

Naturally, the Scottish Greens – a great Wodehousian satire of a revolutionary cell – stay dedicated to the use of single-sex areas by anybody who feels they belong to that sex.

There have been recent declarations of from trade unions, too. Unison has allowed a trans woman 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 local authorities and health boards – is another pricey legal action in the making.

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

Nor needs to the novelist have felt it needed to develop, in 2022, Beira’s Place, a women-only support service for victims of sexual violence in the Lothian area.

Ms Rowling’s decisions to money Beira’s Place and to underwrite the legal expenses of females discriminated versus for thinking 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 political leaders.

I understand that recognition is the last thing on the writer’s mind but isn’t it downright unusual that, when he broaches the accomplishments of successful Scots, First Minister John Swinney never mentions the support Beira’s Place has provided to hundreds of women?

Money is not the only thing women doing something about it to defend their rights require. Ask anybody who has actually been through the tribunal procedure and they’ll tell you that the emotional assistance of friends and allies is necessary.

This convenience will not be in short supply for those ladies who receive backing for their cases from the JK Rowling Women’s Fund. The author is part of a global network of campaigners, combating to secure ladies’s rights against the needs of trans activists, and calls to action and assistance do not go unheeded.

Let the nation’s human resources departments brace themselves. A most remarkable plot twist has simply been written.