EUAN McCOLM: in Praise Of JK Rowling
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For years, now, women have been losing jobs after daring to reveal the view that biology is real and crucial.

Companies and public bodies, recorded by the demands of extremist trans activists, have exacted vicious punishments on those expressing 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 information of females dealt with abominably by companies in thrall to advocates who advised and enforced the illegal adoption of self-ID policies when it came to single-sex spaces.

We have actually heard of ladies bullied and avoided for questioning the right of those born male to self-identify into women's areas, from altering rooms to domestic violence sanctuaries.

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

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

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

The facility by the novelist and benefactor JK Rowling of a fund to support women's legal defense of their rights immediately eliminates any monetary barriers to action for those with practical 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 personnels departments across the nation.

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

This extensive and reckless complacency stands to cost companies - and taxpayer-funded bodies - dear. The realities are easy. If a service is provided on a single sex basis that suggests biological sex, not personal identity.

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

A variety of previous legal actions after women were unjustly dismissed or bullied out of jobs for refusing to agree with the mantra "trans females are women" were possible thanks to the assistance of online crowd-funding projects. Ms Rowling often promoted - and donated to - such charity events.

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

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

At the heart of commercial tribunals there may be vulnerable people playing for high stakes but the human cost means absolutely nothing to the insurance companies 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 legal representatives in business will, I presume, motivate numerous to prompt settlement instead of the humiliation, and inevitable cost, of more doomed defences.

If one needed proof that women's rights need the fiercest protection, it came in the reaction to the launch of Ms Rowling's fund.

With scrumptious pathos, one activist lawyer 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 destiny motion".

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

Other responses were, naturally, more violent in tone.

The ongoing tribunal involving nurse Sandie Peggie, declaring discrimination and harassment versus NHS Fife and trans-identifying medical professional Beth Upton, brought the problem of the way so called "gender vital" ladies had actually been treated at work to broad attention. This is a case that "cut through" with the general public and required some political leaders to resolve a problem they preferred to prevent.

Scottish Labour's leader Anas Sarwar and his deputy, Jackie Baillie, announced their assistance for Ms Peggie and stated their belief in the importance of biological sex.

If they 'd understood what they know now, they included, they would not have voted in favour of the SNP's eventually doomed plan 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 required an embarrassing U-turn by the Labour management on the matter of biological truth, others remain stubbornly devoted to defiance of the law.

Naturally, the Scottish Greens - a terrific Wodehousian satire of a revolutionary cell - stay committed to using single-sex areas by anyone who feels they belong to that sex.

There have 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 regional authorities and health boards - is another costly legal action in the making.

It needs to not have actually been needed for JK Rowling to guarantee to finance the legal expenses of women victimized for their views on sex and gender. Nobody must ever have lost a task, a promotion, or a contract on the basis of their view that sex is immutable and crucial.

Nor should the author have actually 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 choices to money Beira's Place and to finance the legal expenses of women discriminated against for thinking 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 politicians.

I understand that acknowledgment is the last thing on the author's mind but isn't it downright unusual that, when he broaches the accomplishments of successful Scots, First Minister John Swinney never ever points out the support Beira's Place has provided to hundreds of women?

Money is not the only thing women taking action to protect their rights require. Ask anyone who has been through the tribunal process and they'll tell you that the psychological assistance of friends and allies is important.

This comfort will not be in short supply for those women who receive support for their cases from the JK Rowling Women's Fund. The writer belongs to an international network of campaigners, fighting to secure ladies's rights versus the demands of trans activists, and contacts us to action and assistance do not go unheeded.

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