EUAN McCOLM: in Praise Of JK Rowling

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

Companies and public bodies, recorded by the demands of extremist trans activists, have exacted vicious 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’ve heard scary details of females dealt with abominably by companies in thrall to campaigners who advised and implemented the prohibited adoption of self-ID policies when it came to single-sex spaces.

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

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

But even a rock solid case does not make it simple to strike back. Good attorneys are expensive and the process is draining pipes, both physically and mentally.

For every single lady who has actually triumphed in court, there are much more for whom releasing a legal case appeared difficult.

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

Author JK Rowling has actually established a fund to support females’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 ruled, last month, that sex, in law, was a matter of biology instead of paperwork, a number of organisations – in both the public and personal sectors – have provided statements revealing their choices to « consider » the implications for their policies.

This widespread and negligent complacency stands to cost companies – and taxpayer-funded bodies – dear. The realities are simple. If a service is provided on a single sex basis that implies biological sex, not individuality.

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

A variety of past legal actions after women were unfairly dismissed or bullied out of tasks for refusing to concur with the mantra « trans ladies are females » were possible thanks to the support of online crowd-funding projects. Ms Rowling often promoted – and contributed to – such charity events.

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

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

At the heart of commercial tribunals there may be susceptible people betting high stakes but the human cost indicates absolutely nothing to the insurers financing employers’ expenses. For them, it’s everything about the bottom line and the prospect that every female with a case now has access to the best attorneys in the company will, I think, motivate lots of to advise settlement instead of the humiliation, and unavoidable cost, of more doomed defences.

If one required evidence that ladies’s rights are in requirement of the fiercest defense, it came in the response to the launch of Ms Rowling’s fund.

With delicious pathos, one activist legal representative 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 fate motion ».

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

Other actions were, predictably, more violent in tone.

The ongoing tribunal including nurse Sandie Peggie, claiming discrimination and harassment versus NHS Fife and trans-identifying medical professional Beth Upton, brought the concern of the method so called « gender important » females had actually been dealt with at work to broad attention. This is a case that « cut through » with the public and forced some political leaders to resolve a problem they preferred to prevent.

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

If they ‘d understood what they know now, they added, they would not have actually voted in favour of the SNP’s ultimately 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 significance of sex by the Supreme Court may have forced an embarrassing 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 – a terrific Wodehousian satire of a revolutionary cell – stay dedicated to making use of single-sex areas by anyone who feels they belong to that sex.

There have actually been current statements of resistance from trade unions, too. Unison has allowed a trans lady to run for a women-only position on its national executive council.

But every act of performative defiance by well-funded trade unions – or taxpayer-funded local authorities and health boards – is another pricey legal action in the making.

It ought to not have 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 job, a promotion, or an agreement on the basis of their view that sex is immutable and important.

Nor ought to the author have actually felt it needed 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 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 political leaders.

I know that recognition is the last thing on the author’s mind but isn’t it downright strange that, when he broaches the accomplishments of effective Scots, First Minister John Swinney never mentions the support Beira’s Place has offered to numerous females?

Money is not the only thing ladies doing something about it to protect their rights require. Ask anyone who has been through the tribunal process and they’ll inform you that the psychological assistance of good friends and allies is vital.

This comfort will not be in brief supply for those ladies who receive backing for their cases from the JK Rowling Women’s Fund. The author is part of a worldwide network of campaigners, combating to protect ladies’s rights against the needs of trans activists, and calls to action and assistance do not go unheeded.

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