EUAN McCOLM: in Praise Of JK Rowling

For several years, now, women have actually been losing tasks after daring to reveal the view that biology is genuine and essential.

Companies and public bodies, captured by the demands of extremist trans activists, have exacted harsh penalties on those expressing perfectly mainstream - and legal - views on sex and gender.

Inevitably, tribunals have followed a number of these cases. During these, we have actually heard horrifying information of females treated abominably by companies in thrall to advocates who prompted and enforced the unlawful adoption of self-ID policies when it pertained to single-sex areas.

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 changing rooms to domestic violence refuges.

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 lawyers are costly and the process is draining pipes, both physically and mentally.

For every single female who has thrived in court, there are a lot more for whom launching a legal case seemed difficult.

The establishment by the author and philanthropist JK Rowling of a fund to support ladies's legal security of their rights instantly removes 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, right now, be focusing minds in personnels departments across the country.

Since the Supreme Court ruled, last month, that sex, in law, referred biology instead of documentation, a variety of organisations - in both the public and private sectors - have released statements revealing their choices to "consider" the implications for their policies.

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

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

A number of previous legal actions after females were unjustly dismissed or bullied out of jobs for refusing to agree with the mantra "trans ladies are ladies" were possible thanks to the support of online crowd-funding projects. Ms Rowling frequently promoted - and donated to - such fundraisers.

Now, she's a one-woman crowd-funder, ready to back the cases of every lady wronged at work for speaking the reality about sex.

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

At the heart of industrial tribunals there may be vulnerable people betting high stakes however the human cost indicates absolutely nothing to the insurance providers financing companies' costs. For them, it's everything about the bottom line and the possibility that every woman with a case now has access to the very best attorneys in the company will, I suspect, encourage many to advise settlement rather than the humiliation, and inescapable cost, of more doomed defences.

If one needed evidence that females's rights require the fiercest defense, it can be found 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 fate motion".

Ms Rowling has never ever remained in the shadows when it concerns her views on ladies's rights, has she?

Other responses were, predictably, more violent in tone.

The continuous tribunal involving nurse Sandie Peggie, declaring discrimination and harassment against NHS Fife and trans-identifying doctor Beth Upton, brought the problem of the method so called "gender critical" women had been treated at work to broad attention. This is a case that "cut through" with the general public and forced some politicians to deal with an issue they chose to prevent.

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

If they 'd understood what they understand now, they included, they would not have actually enacted favour of the SNP's ultimately doomed plan to enable anyone to self-identify into the legally-recognised sex of their choosing.

But while the Peggie case and the subsequent judgment on the legal significance of sex by the Supreme Court might have forced an embarrassing U-turn by the Labour leadership on the matter of biological truth, others stay stubbornly devoted to defiance of the law.

Naturally, the Scottish Greens - a fantastic Wodehousian satire of a revolutionary cell - stay dedicated to the use of single-sex areas by anybody who feels they belong to that sex.

There have actually been recent declarations of resistance from trade unions, too. Unison has actually allowed 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 local authorities and health boards - is another costly legal action in the making.

It should not have been necessary for JK Rowling to guarantee to finance the legal costs of women discriminated against for their views on sex and gender. Nobody should ever have lost a job, a promo, or an agreement on the basis of their view that sex is immutable and important.

Nor ought to the author have felt it required to establish, in 2022, Beira's Place, a women-only support service for victims of sexual violence in the Lothian location.

Ms Rowling's choices to fund Beira's Place and to finance the legal expenses of women victimized 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 know that recognition is the last thing on the writer's mind but isn't it downright strange that, when he talks of the achievements of effective Scots, First Minister John Swinney never discusses the assistance Beira's Place has provided to hundreds of females?

Money is not the only thing females acting to safeguard their rights need. Ask anybody who has actually been through the tribunal procedure and they'll tell you that the emotional support of good friends and allies is vital.

This comfort will not remain in short supply for those women who get backing for their cases from the JK Rowling Women's Fund. The writer becomes part of a global network of campaigners, battling to secure females's rights versus the demands of trans activists, and calls to action and assistance do not go unheeded.