Recognising the Women’s Rights Endeavours of J.K. Rowling

That the Parliament recognises J.K. Rowling’s continuing work in defence of the rights and safety of women and girls; notes her recent update to her June 2020 essay, An Update to My essay of June 2020, setting out the reasons why she and others consider that aspects of trans activism pose risks to women’s sex-based rights and to freedom of speech and belief; further notes that she founded and funds Beira’s Place, the only women-only rape crisis centre in Edinburgh, which provides confidential trauma-informed support to women survivors of sexual violence aged 16 and over across the Lothians; acknowledges the establishment of the J.K. Rowling Women’s Fund, which helps women and organisations in the UK and Ireland when they lack the means to pursue or defend legal actions relating to sex-based rights, single-sex spaces, workplace discrimination or the expression of belief that sex is biological and immutable; welcomes the Supreme Court’s ruling in For Women Scotland v The Scottish Ministers clarifying that sex in the Equality Act 2010 means biological sex; regrets reports that many organisations continue to fail to secure single-sex spaces for women and girls, and condemns what it sees as the promotion of gender ideology in nurseries and schools.