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제목 | EUAN McCOLM: in Praise Of JK Rowling |
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작성자 | Lieselotte |
조회수 | 11회 |
작성일 | 25-06-10 05:39 |
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For years, now, females have actually been losing tasks after daring to express the view that biology is genuine and essential.
Companies and public bodies, caught by the demands of extremist trans activists, have actually exacted harsh 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 scary information of women treated abominably by companies in thrall to advocates who prompted and imposed the unlawful adoption of self-ID policies when it spaces.
We've become aware of females bullied and shunned for questioning the right of those born male to self-identify into females's spaces, from altering spaces to domestic violence sanctuaries.
Equally undoubtedly, those women efficient in resisting have been winning legal actions.
But even a rock strong case does not make it simple to retaliate. Good attorneys are pricey and the process is draining, both physically and emotionally.

For each woman who has actually thrived in court, there are a lot more for whom introducing a legal case seemed difficult.
The facility by the author and philanthropist JK Rowling of a fund to support women's legal defense of their rights instantly removes any financial barriers to action for those with viable cases.

Author JK Rowling has actually developed a fund to support women's legal security of their rights
The intervention of Ms Rowling should, today, be concentrating minds in human resources departments throughout the nation.
Since the Supreme Court ruled, last month, that sex, in law, was a matter of biology instead of documentation, a variety of organisations - in both the general public and economic sectors - have issued declarations revealing their choices to "consider" the implications for their policies.
This prevalent and careless complacency stands to cost business - and taxpayer-funded bodies - dear. The realities are simple. If a service is offered on a single sex basis that indicates biological sex, not personal identity.
The law is the law and no additional consideration is required in order for employers to fulfill their commitments under it.
A variety of past legal actions after ladies were unjustly dismissed or bullied out of jobs for declining to concur with the mantra "trans women are women" were possible thanks to the assistance of online crowd-funding campaigns. Ms Rowling often promoted - and contributed to - such fundraising events.
Now, she's a one-woman crowd-funder, ready to back the cases of every lady mistreated at work for speaking the truth about sex.
The JK Rowling Women's Fund will transform the battleground when it comes to ladies discriminated versus for their genuine, reality-based views.
At the heart of commercial tribunals there might be susceptible individuals betting high stakes but the human expense indicates nothing to the insurance companies underwriting 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 finest lawyers in the business will, I presume, encourage many to prompt settlement instead of the humiliation, and unavoidable cost, of more doomed defences.
If one required evidence that women's rights are in need of the fiercest protection, it was available in the action to the launch of Ms Rowling's fund.
With delicious pathos, one activist lawyer declared online that the Harry Potter creator had "emerged from the shadows" as the funder of what he described as the "anti feminist biology is destiny motion".
Ms Rowling has never been in the shadows when it concerns 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 medical professional Beth Upton, brought the problem of the way so called "gender important" women had been dealt with at work to wide attention. This is a case that "cut through" with the general public and required 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 stated their belief in the value of biological sex.
If they 'd understood what they know now, they included, they would not have actually enacted favour of the SNP's eventually doomed strategy to enable 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 may have required an embarrassing U-turn by the Labour leadership on the matter of biological truth, others remain stubbornly committed to defiance of the law.
Naturally, the Scottish Greens - an excellent Wodehousian satire of a revolutionary cell - remain committed to making use of single-sex spaces by anyone who feels they come from that sex.

There have been recent statements of resistance from trade unions, too. Unison has allowed a trans lady 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 needs to not have actually been required for JK Rowling to ensure to finance the legal costs of women discriminated versus for their views on sex and gender. Nobody needs to ever have actually lost a job, a promo, or an agreement on the basis of their view that sex is immutable and essential.
Nor must the novelist have actually felt it required to develop, in 2022, Beira's Place, a women-only support service for victims of sexual violence in the Lothian location.
Ms Rowling's decisions to money Beira's Place and to finance the legal expenses of ladies victimized for believing 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 political leaders.

I understand that acknowledgment is the last thing on the author's mind however isn't it downright unusual that, when he broaches the accomplishments of effective Scots, First Minister John Swinney never mentions the assistance Beira's Place has given to numerous females?
Money is not the only thing women doing something about it to protect their rights require. Ask anybody who has been through the tribunal process and they'll inform you that the psychological assistance of friends and allies is vital.
This convenience will not be in short supply for those females who receive backing for their cases from the JK Rowling Women's Fund. The writer belongs to an international network of campaigners, combating to secure women's rights against 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 actually simply been written.