EUAN McCOLM: in Praise Of JK Rowling

EUAN McCOLM: in Praise Of JK Rowling

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For many years, now, females have been losing jobs after daring to reveal the view that biology is real and crucial.


Companies and public bodies, caught by the demands of extremist trans activists, have actually exacted cruel punishments on those revealing perfectly mainstream - and legal - views on sex and gender.


Inevitably, tribunals have followed a variety of these cases. During these, we have actually heard scary details of ladies dealt with abominably by employers in thrall to advocates who prompted and implemented the unlawful adoption of self-ID policies when it concerned single-sex areas.


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


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


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


For every single female who has triumphed in court, there are a lot more for whom releasing a legal case appeared impossible.


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


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


The intervention of Ms Rowling should, today, be concentrating minds in personnels departments across the nation.


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 economic sectors - have provided statements revealing their choices to "consider" the ramifications for their policies.


This extensive and careless complacency stands to cost companies - and taxpayer-funded bodies - dear. The facts are easy. If a service is provided on a single sex basis that implies biological sex, not individuality.


The law is the law and no more consideration is required in order for companies to fulfill their obligations under it.


A number of past legal actions after females were unfairly dismissed or bullied out of tasks for refusing to agree with the mantra "trans women are women" were possible thanks to the assistance of online crowd-funding projects. Ms Rowling often promoted - and donated to - such fundraisers.


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


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


At the heart of industrial tribunals there may be vulnerable people betting high stakes however the human expense implies nothing to the insurance providers underwriting companies' expenses. For them, it's everything about the bottom line and the prospect that every female with a case now has access to the very best legal representatives in business will, I think, encourage many to urge settlement rather than the humiliation, and inescapable cost, of more doomed defences.


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


With scrumptious pathos, one activist attorney declared 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 movement".


Ms Rowling has never ever been in the shadows when it concerns her views on rights, has she?


Other reactions were, predictably, more violent in tone.


The ongoing tribunal including nurse Sandie Peggie, declaring discrimination and harassment against Fife and trans-identifying medical professional 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 public and required some political leaders to address a problem 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 significance of biological sex.


If they 'd known what they understand now, they added, they would not have enacted favour of the SNP's eventually doomed plan to permit anybody 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 forced a humiliating U-turn by the Labour leadership on the matter of biological truth, others stay stubbornly dedicated to defiance of the law.


Naturally, the Scottish Greens - an excellent Wodehousian satire of an innovative cell - remain committed to using single-sex areas by anybody who feels they belong to that sex.


There have actually been recent declarations of resistance from trade unions, too. Unison has actually 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 local 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 women discriminated versus for their views on sex and gender. Nobody must ever have lost a job, a promotion, or a contract on the basis of their view that sex is immutable and important.


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


Ms Rowling's choices to money Beira's Place and to underwrite the legal expenses of ladies victimized for believing 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 unusual that, when he talks of the achievements of successful Scots, First Minister John Swinney never discusses the support Beira's Place has provided to hundreds of females?


Money is not the only thing women taking action to defend their rights require. Ask anyone who has been through the tribunal procedure and they'll inform you that the psychological support of buddies and allies is important.


This convenience will not be in short supply for those women who get backing for their cases from the JK Rowling Women's Fund. The author is part of a worldwide network of campaigners, combating to safeguard females's rights versus the needs of trans activists, and contacts us to action and support do not go unheeded.


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

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