EUAN McCOLM: in Praise Of JK Rowling

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

Companies and public bodies, captured by the demands of extremist trans activists, have exacted harsh penalties on those expressing completely mainstream – and legal – views on sex and gender.

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

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

Equally inevitably, those females efficient in combating back have been winning legal actions.

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

For each female who has thrived in court, there are lots of more for whom releasing a legal case seemed impossible.

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

Author JK Rowling has developed a fund to support women’s legal protection of their rights

The intervention of Ms Rowling should, right now, be concentrating minds in human resources departments across the country.

Since the Supreme Court ruled, last month, that sex, in law, referred biology rather than documents, a variety of organisations – in both the general public and economic sectors – have issued statements revealing their choices to “think about” the ramifications for their policies.

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

The law is the law and no further consideration is required in order for employers to satisfy their obligations under it.

A number of past legal actions after ladies were unjustly dismissed or bullied out of tasks for declining to agree with the mantra “trans females are ladies” were possible thanks to the support of online crowd-funding campaigns. Ms Rowling regularly promoted – and donated to – such fundraising events.

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

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

At the heart of industrial tribunals there might be susceptible individuals betting high stakes however the human expense indicates absolutely nothing to the insurance companies financing employers’ expenses. For them, it’s everything about the bottom line and the prospect that every lady with a case now has access to the finest lawyers in the business will, I believe, motivate lots of to advise settlement rather than the humiliation, and inevitable cost, of more doomed defences.

If one needed evidence that ladies’s rights need the fiercest security, it came in the response to the launch of Ms Rowling’s fund.

With tasty pathos, one activist attorney declared 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 concerns her views on ladies’s rights, has she?

Other responses were, naturally, more violent in tone.

The continuous tribunal involving nurse Sandie Peggie, claiming discrimination and harassment versus NHS Fife and trans-identifying medical professional Beth Upton, brought the issue of the way so called “gender critical” ladies had actually been dealt with at work to wide attention. This is a case that “cut through” with the public and forced some political leaders to resolve a concern they chose to avoid.

Scottish Labour’s Sarwar and his deputy, Jackie Baillie, announced their assistance for Ms Peggie and declared their belief in the significance of biological sex.

If they ‘d known what they understand now, they included, they would not have enacted favour of the SNP’s ultimately doomed strategy to allow 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 may have required a humiliating U-turn by the Labour management on the matter of biological truth, others stay stubbornly dedicated to defiance of the law.

Naturally, the Scottish Greens – an excellent Wodehousian satire of a revolutionary cell – stay committed to the usage of single-sex areas by anyone who feels they belong to that sex.

There have been recent statements of resistance from trade unions, too. Unison has permitted a trans woman 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 needs to not have been essential for JK Rowling to guarantee to finance the legal costs of women victimized for their views on sex and gender. Nobody ought to ever have lost a task, a promotion, or an agreement on the basis of their view that sex is immutable and essential.

Nor needs to the novelist have actually felt it essential to develop, 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 underwrite the legal costs of ladies victimized for thinking 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 author’s mind but isn’t it downright weird that, when he broaches the achievements of successful Scots, First Minister John Swinney never mentions the support Beira’s Place has given to hundreds of ladies?

Money is not the only thing females taking action to protect their rights require. Ask anyone who has actually been through the tribunal procedure and they’ll inform you that the emotional assistance of pals and allies is necessary.

This comfort will not remain in short supply for those women who get support for their cases from the JK Rowling Women’s Fund. The author is part of an international network of advocates, combating to protect ladies’s rights against the demands of trans activists, and contacts us to action and assistance do not go unheeded.

Let the country’s personnels departments brace themselves. A most remarkable plot twist has simply been written.