EUAN McCOLM: in Praise Of JK Rowling

For several years, now, women have been losing tasks after bold to reveal the view that biology is real and essential.

Companies and public bodies, caught by the needs of extremist trans activists, have exacted vicious punishments on those expressing perfectly mainstream – and legal – views on sex and gender.

Inevitably, tribunals have followed a variety of these cases. During these, we have actually heard terrible information of women dealt with abominably by employers in thrall to advocates who prompted and imposed the unlawful adoption of self-ID policies when it concerned single-sex spaces.

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

Equally inevitably, those ladies capable of fighting back have actually been winning legal actions.

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

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

The establishment by the novelist and benefactor JK Rowling of a fund to support females’s legal security of their rights instantly gets rid of any financial barriers to action for those with practical cases.

Author JK Rowling has established a fund to support females’s legal protection 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, was a matter of biology instead of paperwork, a variety of organisations – in both the general public and private sectors – have provided declarations announcing their choices to “consider” the implications for their policies.

This widespread and careless complacency stands to cost companies – and taxpayer-funded bodies – dear. The truths 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 additional consideration is required in order for employers to fulfill their responsibilities under it.

A variety of past legal actions after women were unfairly dismissed or bullied out of jobs for refusing to agree with the mantra “trans women are ladies” were possible thanks to the assistance of online crowd-funding projects. Ms Rowling often promoted – and to – such fundraising events.

Now, she’s a one-woman crowd-funder, all set 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 battleground when it concerns females discriminated versus for their genuine, reality-based views.

At the heart of commercial tribunals there might be susceptible individuals betting high stakes but the human cost indicates nothing to the insurance providers underwriting companies’ expenses. For them, it’s everything about the bottom line and the possibility that every woman with a case now has access to the finest legal representatives in the service will, I believe, encourage lots of to advise settlement rather than the humiliation, and inescapable expense, of more doomed defences.

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

With scrumptious pathos, one activist attorney 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 destiny motion”.

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

Other reactions were, predictably, more violent in tone.

The continuous tribunal involving nurse Sandie Peggie, declaring discrimination and harassment against NHS Fife and trans-identifying doctor Beth Upton, brought the concern of the method so called “gender critical” females had been treated at work to broad attention. This is a case that “cut through” with the public and required some politicians to deal with a problem they preferred to avoid.

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

If they ‘d understood what they know now, they added, they would not have actually enacted 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 judgment on the legal meaning of sex by the Supreme Court may have forced a humiliating U-turn by the Labour leadership on the matter of biological reality, others stay stubbornly committed to defiance of the law.

Naturally, the Scottish Greens – a great Wodehousian satire of an advanced cell – remain committed to the use of single-sex spaces 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 female 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 regional authorities and health boards – is another expensive legal action in the making.

It ought to not have actually been necessary for JK Rowling to ensure to underwrite the legal expenses of women discriminated against for their views on sex and gender. Nobody must ever have lost a job, a promo, or a contract on the basis of their view that sex is immutable and crucial.

Nor should the novelist have felt it essential to establish, 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 finance the legal expenses of ladies 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 however isn’t it downright weird that, when he talks of the accomplishments of successful Scots, First Minister John Swinney never discusses the support Beira’s Place has offered to numerous ladies?

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

This comfort will not be in short supply for those women who receive support for their cases from the JK Rowling Women’s Fund. The writer becomes part of a global network of advocates, fighting to safeguard women’s rights versus the demands of trans activists, and contacts us to action and support do not go unheeded.

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