EUAN McCOLM: in Praise Of JK Rowling
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For several years, now, females have been losing tasks after bold to express the view that biology is genuine and essential.

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

Inevitably, tribunals have actually followed a variety of these cases. During these, we've heard scary details of women dealt with abominably by employers in thrall to advocates who urged and implemented the illegal adoption of self-ID policies when it came to single-sex spaces.

We have actually become aware of ladies bullied and avoided for questioning the right of those born male to self-identify into women's spaces, from altering spaces to domestic violence refuges.

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

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

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

The establishment by the novelist and benefactor JK Rowling of a fund to support females's legal security of their rights right away eliminates any monetary barriers to action for those with practical cases.

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

The intervention of Ms Rowling should, right now, be focusing minds in human resources departments throughout the nation.

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 economic sectors - have actually provided statements announcing their decisions to "consider" the ramifications for their policies.

This prevalent 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 means biological sex, not individuality.

The law is the law and no more consideration is needed in order for companies to meet their commitments under it.

A variety of previous legal actions after females were unfairly dismissed or bullied out of jobs for refusing to agree with the mantra "trans females are females" were possible thanks to the assistance of online crowd-funding projects. Ms Rowling often promoted - and contributed 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 fact about sex.

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

At the heart of commercial tribunals there might be susceptible people playing for high stakes but the human cost implies nothing to the insurance companies underwriting companies' expenses. For them, it's all about the bottom line and the possibility that every woman with a case now has access to the finest attorneys in the company will, I presume, motivate many to prompt settlement rather than the embarrassment, and inescapable cost, of more doomed defences.

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

With delicious pathos, one activist attorney declared online that the Harry Potter developer had "emerged from the shadows" as the funder of what he explained as the "anti feminist biology is fate 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 including nurse Sandie Peggie, declaring discrimination and harassment versus NHS Fife and trans-identifying medical professional Beth Upton, brought the problem of the method so called "gender crucial" women had actually been treated at work to wide attention. This is a case that "cut through" with the public and forced some political leaders to attend to an issue they chose 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 significance of biological sex.

If they 'd known what they know now, they included, they would not have enacted favour of the SNP's eventually doomed strategy to permit anyone to self-identify into the legally-recognised sex of their picking.

But while the Peggie case and the subsequent ruling on the legal meaning of sex by the Supreme Court might have forced an embarrassing U-turn by the Labour leadership on the matter of biological truth, others stay stubbornly devoted to defiance of the law.

Naturally, the Scottish Greens - a great Wodehousian satire of an advanced cell - stay dedicated to using areas by anybody who feels they belong to that sex.

There have been current declarations 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 local authorities and health boards - is another costly legal action in the making.

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

Nor must the author have felt it essential 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 females discriminated against 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 acknowledgment is the last thing on the writer's mind but isn't it downright unusual that, when he broaches the accomplishments of effective Scots, First Minister John Swinney never mentions the assistance Beira's Place has offered to numerous women?

Money is not the only thing women taking action to safeguard their rights need. Ask anyone who has actually been through the tribunal process and they'll inform you that the psychological support of friends and allies is essential.

This convenience will not remain in short supply for those ladies who get backing for their cases from the JK Rowling Women's Fund. The writer is part of a global network of campaigners, combating to protect females's rights against the demands of trans activists, and calls to action and assistance do not go unheeded.

Let the nation's personnels departments brace themselves. A most amazing plot twist has just been composed.