JK Rowling - Women’s Fund

I think the next Strike book is out in September which I will pre-order if I can. The full set sits on the bookcase in the living room.

x.com/jk_rowling/status/1926190807779787015?s=46&t=AjtjSItRj-kgZwRzL-pdyQ

"women raising their voices, writing to their MPs, turning out to demonstrate, donating what they can to crowfunders of women fighting the Gender Goliath remains essential if we’re going to reclaim rights we didn’t know we’d have to fight for all over again."

Don't worry Jo, we will!

Although I think I'm blocked by my MP/MSPs as I email them so often about gender shite. 😂😂

Is this true?What an amazing, kind beautiful soul. What a woman ! Oh thank you Jo Rowling ! So generous and good !

I suspect there will still be many areas where women will need to crowdfund.

I suspect that some resources that were earmarked for women will be done away with, out of spite that men can no longer claim them.

So we may need to build up from scratch again resources such as refuges just for women.

Fantastic 😊

Jo, I know you're on here, hope you're reading how grateful we all are that you are doing this to support all women. I could kiss you!!

That's so true. It's been so wonderful over the past few years so see women take these big organisations to court and win, backed purely by small donations (£20 here, £30 there) from individual women determined to see justice done. The pinnacle of all this was the FWS victory at the Supreme Court - three brave, ordinary women defeating the might of the Scottish government with all those resources at its fingertips.

But it's also true of course that there must be many, many women who lost their job or had to put up with a man in their changing room who didn't have the mental energy for a court case, and who just ended up walking away or putting up with it. These are the women who now know that if they want to fight, the money is there for them - they don't have to put themselves in the spotlight to crowdfund.

I am so looking forward to seeing these women, backed by the weight of Supreme Court ruling and the substantial monies of the JK Rowling fund, teach those smug, self-righteous, woman-hating organisations the lesson they deserve.

I really can't stand Harry Potter but now I find myself shopping for all the books. 😂

Absolutely this.

No one could object to this unless they object to women having access to justice and the rights and protections they hold in law. If they are not being treated in a discriminatory way, if they are not in the right by law, then they won't have a case no matter how much money gets involved. The application makes clear that the board will identify first that there is a case in considering applications for funding. So any whinging will be entirely about how wrong it is that women have rights.

That woman is amazing. Thank you JKR, women should not have to be able to afford to fight for their rights in 2025, and many of those fights will be against government funded organisations, but they do have to, and this will enable the case law needed to protect all women as well as the ones that go through the hell of insisting their rights and protections exist in practice as well as on paper.

The thing is, JKR can fund the fights but she can't win them just with her money. She's not bribing judges, she's just giving people resources to match all the institutions that have been stripping women of their rights for years.

Without her, we would still win through crowdfunding - we are having all these wins because we're right and there are a lot of us, not because she's a lone wolf with an agenda nobody cares about who's buying the court system - but God it would take much longer, be much harder and even more people would have been ruined in the process.

One of the most entertaining things since JKR joined the fight five years ago is witnessing the almighty temper tantrums from TRAs who can't bear the fact that a woman has the audacity, not only to make a lot of money through her own talent and hard work, but then to use that money to support other women. They absolutely cannot bear it, can they? And yet it doesn't matter how much the scream and shout and name call, she doesn't give a fuck. She keeps on doing the right thing. It must really hurt.

As a former major donor to Stonewall, I stopped my donations when I worked out a decade ago they were no longer supporting the rights of lesbians. So, yes, some of us homos are Gender Critical.

I know, the utter twats!

In what may or may not be a coincidence, one of the UK GC crowdfunders I 've supported over the last few months is now closed to donations although according to Crowdjustice it's still quite a way from its stretch target. The others are still open.

It's levelled the playing field. For years the law was misrepresented and misapplied. Now we have clarification of what it has always been but many places will continue to act illegally, prioritising male wants over female needs, because women will be intimidated and scared at the procedure, which is itself the punishment. With the financials covered, women can come as much more equal matches (they still won't have the backing of clown army Amnesty International and so on) when they're being illegally shat on.

There's all manner of licensed HP merch for kids and adults alike. Time to start my Christmas shopping list.

Birdy's partner has just had a venue cancel on him 'because of his views'...

For anyone who wasn't sure if the Fund was real (and to be fair, I tend to be a bit wary about stuff like this too until I see confirmation), JKR has confirmed that it is. If you look at her replies on her Twitter account, she confirmed it yesterday.

This is marvellous - will make all the captured HR departments and unions realise they face an expensive fight if they continue to discriminate.

However a reminder that it doesnt cover men or extend beyond uk and ireland so there is still a role for gardeners e.g. to support people like Stephen Flaherty sacked for exposing Nottm College's secret transition of a child to her mother. Kevin Lister is still having to Fight transgender madness in the education system. The preliminary appeal hearing is on the 29th May 2025. Graham Lineham is being sued by David Paisley. Interim target was met but there is a stretch target that can be found under why I’m asking for your help again. Simon Chambers and others were assaulted and refused service at a pub for supporting women’s rights. Shahrar Ali is still looking for support as Groundhog Day for Green Party Unlawful GC Discrimination.

By setting this up as a private fund JKR does not have to publish accounts or tell anyone what cases she supports - and if she wants to depart from the aims of the fund to support a Brighton father fighting his kids school I guess she can do that too. If not other gardeners can chip in,

What a fantastic initiative from a wonderful woman.
Hopefully a few court cases this will help bring the businesses currently displaying their anti women views back to reality quickly.

And if we're talking about organisations which waste tons of cash in spurious lost cases, well -

https://thecritic.co.uk/bad-law-project/

Although, Chrissy admits to continuing to donate money to Stonewall of all organisations - throwing the money down the drain would probably achieve more.

Here’s a worthwhile international one:

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5331515-new-zealands-forstater-case

Actually I would say it’s the opposite. I have always been very supportive of the gay community and their rights but their voices have now been drowned out by the transactivists. I was recently reading a LinkedIn post about a call for colleagues to join a Pride event. All of the comments were supportive of the trans community. Not one single mention of their LGB colleagues, of whom there are many.

It’s very difficult to support causes for the LGB community because they are now classed as one generic LGBQT+ group. As a result I now steer clear which saddens me.

Voices like JKR keep me hopeful than sanity will prevail.

The words man and woman are meaningless when you use them.

The fund has very strict eligibility criteria and in case you hadn't noticed, JKR is rather smart and has stated that she has no wish to take away anyone's livelihood just because they express legally protected beliefs that she doesn't like, unlike your barmy army.

As for whether the fund wastes tons of cash in spurious lost cases, well, I guess time will tell, won't it?

I might do this, buy again the HP books and any more JKR output to show support and display proudly at home to give a (subtle) message to visitors