JasSmith@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Rowling is an hell of a woman. She’s donated more money than we will ever earn and doesn’t dodge her taxes.
She lost her billionaire status a few years ago after donating between 160 to 200 million quid!
Say what you want about her views on gender, but she has done more good for the world than most.
Introduced an entire generation to reading. Millions of kids who weren’t big readers picked up lifetime habits!
Started or donated to many charities. Including the Multiple Sclerosis Society Scotland, The Maggie’s Centres for Cancer Care, Doctors Without Borders, and more. She founded the Children’s High Level Group, known as Lumos, which works to “end the systematic institutionalization of children across Europe and help them find safer, more caring places to live.” She has also contributed to various other charitable causes through her philanthropic trust, Volant.
Helped save female Afghani lawyers from the taliban.
Funded the Anne Rowling Regenerative Neurology clinic in Edinburgh.
And rather more contentiously, has stuck to her guns about the areas where she believes sex should take precedence over gender identity in the face of abuse, rape and death threats.
And now employment tribunals are ruling again and again that gender critical views are perfectly reasonable to hold and in fact are legally protected.