EUAN McCOLM: in Praise Of JK Rowling

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

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

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

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

Equally undoubtedly, those women efficient in resisting have actually been winning legal actions.

But even a rock strong case does not make it easy to strike back. Good lawyers are expensive and the process is draining, both physically and mentally.

For each lady who has actually triumphed in court, there are lots of more for whom introducing a legal case seemed difficult.

The facility by the novelist and benefactor JK Rowling of a fund to support women’s legal protection of their rights immediately removes any financial barriers to action for those with practical cases.

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

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

Since the Supreme Court ruled, last month, that sex, in law, referred biology rather than paperwork, a number of organisations – in both the general public and personal sectors – have actually issued statements revealing their decisions to “consider” the ramifications for their policies.

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

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

A variety of previous legal actions after females were unjustly dismissed or bullied out of tasks for refusing to concur with the mantra “trans ladies are women” 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 female wronged at work for speaking the truth about sex.

The JK Rowling Women’s Fund will change the battlefield when it concerns women discriminated versus for their legitimate, reality-based views.

At the heart of commercial tribunals there might be susceptible people betting high stakes however the human cost means nothing to the insurance providers 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 very best legal representatives in business will, I presume, encourage numerous to advise settlement instead of the embarrassment, and inevitable expense, of more doomed defences.

If one needed evidence that women’s rights require the fiercest security, it can be found in the response to the launch of Ms Rowling’s fund.

With scrumptious pathos, one activist lawyer stated online that the Harry Potter developer had “emerged from the shadows” as the funder of what he referred to as the “anti feminist biology is fate motion”.

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

Other responses were, naturally, more violent in tone.

The continuous tribunal involving nurse Sandie Peggie, claiming discrimination and harassment against NHS Fife and trans-identifying physician Beth Upton, brought the issue of the way so called “gender critical” ladies had been treated at work to wide attention. This is a case that “cut through” with the public and forced some politicians to address a concern they preferred to prevent.

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 included, they would not have enacted favour of the SNP’s ultimately doomed strategy to allow anyone to self-identify into the legally-recognised sex of their picking.

But while the Peggie case and the subsequent ruling on the legal significance of sex by the Supreme Court might have required an embarrassing 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 great Wodehousian satire of a revolutionary cell – stay committed to using single-sex areas by anybody who feels they belong to that sex.

There have been recent statements 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 costly legal action in the making.

It must not have actually been essential for JK Rowling to guarantee to finance the legal expenses of women discriminated against for their views on sex and gender. Nobody must ever have actually lost a task, a promotion, or an agreement on the basis of their view that sex is immutable and important.

Nor must the novelist have actually 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 choices to money Beira’s Place and to underwrite the legal costs of females discriminated versus 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 know that recognition is the last thing on the author’s mind but isn’t it downright strange that, when he talks of the accomplishments of successful Scots, First Minister John Swinney never points out the support Beira’s Place has provided to hundreds of females?

Money is not the only thing ladies acting to safeguard their rights require. Ask anyone who has actually been through the tribunal procedure and they’ll tell you that the emotional assistance of buddies and allies is important.

This comfort will not remain in short supply for those females who get support for their cases from the JK Rowling Women’s Fund. The writer belongs to an international network of campaigners, fighting to protect women’s rights against the needs of trans activists, and contacts us to action and assistance do not go unheeded.

Let the country’s personnels departments brace themselves. A most exceptional plot twist has just been composed.