EUAN McCOLM: in Praise Of JK Rowling
For years, now, females have actually been losing tasks after daring to express the view that biology is real and crucial.
Companies and public bodies, caught by the needs of extremist trans activists, have exacted vicious punishments on those expressing perfectly mainstream - and legal - views on sex and gender.
Inevitably, tribunals have actually followed a number of these cases. During these, we've heard horrifying information of females treated abominably by companies in thrall to advocates who urged and imposed the illegal adoption of self-ID policies when it came to single-sex spaces.
We've become aware of ladies bullied and shunned for questioning the right of those born male to self-identify into women's areas, from altering spaces to domestic violence refuges.
Equally inevitably, those ladies efficient in battling back have actually been winning legal actions.
But even a rock strong case does not make it easy to strike back. Good legal representatives are costly and the process is draining, both physically and emotionally.
For every single lady who has triumphed in court, there are many more for whom introducing a legal case seemed impossible.
The establishment by the novelist and philanthropist JK Rowling of a fund to support females's legal protection of their rights right away removes any financial barriers to action for those with practical cases.
Author JK Rowling has actually established a fund to support females's legal protection of their rights
The intervention of Ms Rowling should, today, be concentrating minds in personnels departments throughout the nation.
For years, now, females have actually been losing tasks after daring to express the view that biology is real and crucial.
Companies and public bodies, caught by the needs of extremist trans activists, have exacted vicious punishments on those expressing perfectly mainstream - and legal - views on sex and gender.
Inevitably, tribunals have actually followed a number of these cases. During these, we've heard horrifying information of females treated abominably by companies in thrall to advocates who urged and imposed the illegal adoption of self-ID policies when it came to single-sex spaces.
We've become aware of ladies bullied and shunned for questioning the right of those born male to self-identify into women's areas, from altering spaces to domestic violence refuges.
Equally inevitably, those ladies efficient in battling back have actually been winning legal actions.
But even a rock strong case does not make it easy to strike back. Good legal representatives are costly and the process is draining, both physically and emotionally.
For every single lady who has triumphed in court, there are many more for whom introducing a legal case seemed impossible.
The establishment by the novelist and philanthropist JK Rowling of a fund to support females's legal protection of their rights right away removes any financial barriers to action for those with practical cases.
Author JK Rowling has actually established a fund to support females's legal protection of their rights
The intervention of Ms Rowling should, today, be concentrating minds in personnels departments throughout the nation.