EUAN McCOLM: in Praise Of JK Rowling
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For many years, now, females have been losing tasks after daring to reveal the view that biology is genuine and crucial.

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

Inevitably, tribunals have followed a variety of these cases. During these, we have actually heard terrible details of ladies dealt with abominably by companies in thrall to advocates who prompted and enforced the prohibited adoption of self-ID policies when it pertained to single-sex spaces.

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

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

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

For every female who has actually triumphed in court, there are many more for whom launching a legal case appeared difficult.

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

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

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

Since the Supreme Court ruled, last month, that sex, in law, was a matter of biology instead of documents, a number of organisations - in both the public and economic sectors - have released statements announcing their choices to "consider" the implications for their policies.

This widespread and reckless complacency stands to cost companies - and taxpayer-funded bodies - dear. The truths are easy. If a service is used on a single sex basis that suggests biological sex, not individuality.

The law is the law and no further consideration is required in order for employers to satisfy their commitments under it.

A number of past legal actions after women were unfairly dismissed or bullied out of jobs for declining to concur with the mantra "trans women are females" were possible thanks to the support of online crowd-funding campaigns. Ms Rowling frequently promoted - and donated to - such charity events.

Now, she's a one-woman crowd-funder, all set to back the cases of every female mistreated at work for speaking the reality about sex.

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

At the heart of industrial tribunals there might be susceptible people betting high stakes but the human expense suggests nothing to the insurers underwriting employers' costs. For them, it's everything about the bottom line and the possibility that every female with a case now has access to the best attorneys in the service will, I think, encourage many to advise settlement instead of the humiliation, and inescapable expense, of more doomed defences.

If one required proof that females's rights are in need of the fiercest security, it can be found in the action to the launch of Ms Rowling's fund.

With scrumptious pathos, one activist attorney declared online that the Harry Potter creator 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 pertains to her views on females's rights, has she?

Other responses were, predictably, more violent in tone.

The continuous tribunal including nurse Sandie Peggie, declaring discrimination and harassment versus NHS Fife and trans-identifying physician Beth Upton, brought the concern of the method so called "gender crucial" women had actually been treated at work to large attention. This is a case that "cut through" with the general public and required some politicians to deal with a problem they preferred to prevent.

Scottish Labour's 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 voted in favour of the SNP's eventually doomed strategy to permit 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 required a humiliating U-turn by the Labour management on the matter of biological reality, others stay stubbornly committed to defiance of the law.

Naturally, the Scottish Greens - an excellent Wodehousian satire of a revolutionary cell - stay dedicated to the usage of single-sex spaces by anybody who feels they come from that sex.

There have actually been recent declarations of resistance from trade unions, too. Unison has actually permitted a trans woman 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 pricey legal action in the making.

It should not have actually been necessary for JK Rowling to guarantee to finance the legal costs of ladies victimized for their views on sex and gender. Nobody needs to ever have lost a task, a promo, or a contract on the basis of their view that sex is immutable and essential.

Nor needs to the novelist have actually felt it necessary 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 females victimized 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 unusual that, when he broaches the accomplishments of effective Scots, First Minister John Swinney never discusses the support Beira's Place has offered to numerous ladies?

Money is not the only thing women acting to defend their rights need. Ask anybody who has been through the tribunal process and they'll tell you that the emotional support of friends and allies is essential.

This comfort will not be in brief supply for those females who get backing for their cases from the JK Rowling Women's Fund. The writer becomes part of a worldwide network of campaigners, combating to secure females's rights against the needs 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.