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, captured by the demands of extremist trans activists, have exacted terrible punishments on those revealing completely mainstream - and legal - views on sex and gender.
Inevitably, tribunals have followed a number of these cases. During these, we've heard scary details of ladies treated abominably by companies in thrall to campaigners who advised and imposed the illegal adoption of self-ID policies when it pertained to single-sex spaces.
We have actually become aware of women bullied and avoided for questioning the right of those born male to self-identify into women's spaces, from altering rooms to domestic violence refuges.
Equally undoubtedly, those females efficient in resisting have actually been winning legal actions.
But even a rock solid case does not make it simple to strike back. Good legal representatives are pricey and the procedure is draining, both physically and emotionally.
For each female who has actually triumphed in court, there are numerous more for whom launching a legal case appeared difficult.
The establishment by the author and benefactor JK Rowling of a fund to support women's legal defense of their rights right away gets rid of any monetary barriers to action for those with feasible cases.
Author JK Rowling has established a fund to support women's legal protection of their rights
The intervention of Ms Rowling should, today, be concentrating minds in human resources departments across the country.
Since the Supreme Court ruled, last month, that sex, in law, referred biology rather than documentation, a variety of organisations - in both the general public and economic sectors - have issued statements announcing their choices to "think about" the ramifications for their policies.
This prevalent and careless complacency stands to cost business - and taxpayer-funded bodies - dear. The facts are easy. If a service is used on a single sex basis that means biological sex, not individuality.
The law is the law and no further consideration is required in order for companies to meet their responsibilities under it.
A variety of previous legal actions after females were unjustly dismissed or bullied out of jobs for refusing to concur with the mantra "trans females are females" were possible thanks to the assistance of online crowd-funding campaigns. Ms Rowling regularly promoted - and donated to - such charity events.
Now, she's a one-woman crowd-funder, prepared to back the cases of every woman wronged at work for speaking the truth about sex.
The JK Rowling Women's Fund will change the battlefield when it pertains to ladies victimized for their legitimate, reality-based views.
At the heart of industrial tribunals there may be susceptible individuals betting high stakes but the human cost implies absolutely nothing to the insurance providers financing employers' costs. For them, it's all about the bottom line and the possibility that every lady with a case now has access to the very best legal representatives in the organization will, I believe, encourage lots of to advise settlement rather than the humiliation, and inevitable cost, of more doomed defences.
If one needed evidence that women's rights require the fiercest defense, it came in the action to the launch of Ms Rowling's fund.
With delicious pathos, one activist lawyer 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 movement".
Ms Rowling has never ever remained in the shadows when it pertains to her views on females's rights, has she?
Other reactions were, predictably, more violent in tone.
The ongoing tribunal involving nurse Sandie Peggie, declaring discrimination and harassment against NHS Fife and trans-identifying doctor Beth Upton, brought the issue of the way so called "gender critical" females had been treated at work to large attention. This is a case that "cut through" with the general public and required some politicians to attend to an issue they chose 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 importance of biological sex.
If they 'd known what they know now, they included, they would not have actually voted in favour of the SNP's ultimately doomed plan to allow anyone to self-identify into the legally-recognised sex of their choosing.
But while the Peggie case and the subsequent ruling on the legal significance of sex by the Supreme Court might have forced an embarrassing U-turn by the Labour management on the matter of biological reality, others stay stubbornly devoted to defiance of the law.
Naturally, the Scottish Greens - a fantastic Wodehousian satire of an advanced cell - stay committed to using single-sex spaces by anyone who feels they belong to that sex.
There have been current declarations of resistance from trade unions, too. Unison has actually permitted a trans woman 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 - is another pricey legal action in the making.
It must not have actually been needed for JK Rowling to ensure to finance the legal costs of females victimized for their views on sex and gender. Nobody ought to ever have actually lost a task, a promo, or a contract on the basis of their view that sex is immutable and important.
Nor ought to the author have felt it necessary 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 fund Beira's Place and to finance the legal costs of ladies 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 understand that acknowledgment is the last thing on the author's mind however isn't it downright odd that, when he broaches the accomplishments of effective Scots, First Minister John Swinney never discusses the assistance Beira's Place has offered to hundreds of ladies?
Money is not the only thing females acting to protect their rights need. Ask anyone who has actually been through the tribunal process and they'll inform you that the psychological assistance of good friends and allies is important.
This comfort will not remain in short supply for those females who get backing for their cases from the JK Rowling Women's Fund. The writer becomes part of a global network of campaigners, combating to protect women's rights versus the demands 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.
