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

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

Inevitably, tribunals have followed a number of these cases. During these, we've heard horrifying information of women treated abominably by employers in thrall to campaigners who urged and implemented the prohibited 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 changing rooms to domestic violence havens.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Since the Supreme Court ruled, last month, that sex, in law, referred biology rather than documents, a variety of organisations - in both the public and personal sectors - have issued declarations revealing their decisions to "consider" the implications for their policies.

This widespread and reckless complacency stands to cost business - and taxpayer-funded bodies - dear. The realities are simple. If a service is used on a single sex basis that suggests biological sex, not individual identity.

The law is the law and no more factor to consider is required in order for companies to satisfy their obligations under it.

A variety of previous legal actions after ladies were unjustly dismissed or bullied out of jobs for refusing to agree with the mantra "trans ladies are women" were possible thanks to the assistance of online crowd-funding projects. Ms Rowling frequently promoted - and contributed to - such fundraising 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 victimized for their genuine, reality-based views.

At the heart of commercial tribunals there may be vulnerable people betting high stakes however the human cost indicates absolutely nothing to the insurance companies 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 very best attorneys in business will, I suspect, motivate numerous to advise settlement rather than the humiliation, and inevitable cost, of more doomed defences.

If one required evidence that women's rights are in requirement of the fiercest security, it was available in the action to the launch of Ms Rowling's fund.

With scrumptious pathos, one activist legal representative stated online that the Harry Potter developer had "emerged from the shadows" as the funder of what he explained as the "anti feminist biology is destiny movement".

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

Other responses were, predictably, more violent in tone.

The ongoing tribunal involving nurse Sandie Peggie, declaring discrimination and harassment versus NHS Fife and trans-identifying physician Beth Upton, brought the issue of the method so called "gender vital" women had actually been dealt with at work to wide attention. This is a case that "cut through" with the general public and forced some politicians to deal with 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 known what they understand now, they added, they would not have actually voted in favour of the SNP's eventually doomed plan to allow anybody 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 might have forced an embarrassing U-turn by the Labour leadership on the matter of biological reality, others stay stubbornly dedicated to defiance of the law.

Naturally, the Scottish Greens - a great Wodehousian satire of an innovative cell - remain committed to using single-sex areas by anybody who feels they belong to that sex.
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There have actually been current declarations of resistance from trade unions, too. Unison has actually 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 regional authorities and health boards - is another costly legal action in the making.

It should not have been needed for JK Rowling to ensure to finance the legal costs of females discriminated versus for their views on sex and gender. Nobody should ever have lost a task, a promo, or a contract on the basis of their view that sex is immutable and important.

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

Ms Rowling's decisions to fund Beira's Place and to finance the legal costs of ladies discriminated against 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 acknowledgment is the last thing on the author's mind but isn't it downright odd that, when he talks of the achievements of effective Scots, First Minister John Swinney never ever points out the assistance Beira's Place has offered to numerous ladies?

Money is not the only thing ladies doing something about it to protect their rights require. Ask anyone who has been through the tribunal procedure and they'll tell you that the emotional support of pals and allies is important.

This comfort will not be in brief supply for those ladies who get backing for their cases from the JK Rowling Women's Fund. The author becomes part of an international network of campaigners, fighting to secure women's rights against the demands of trans activists, and contacts us to action and assistance do not go unheeded.

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