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For several years, now, women have actually been losing tasks after daring to reveal the view that biology is real and essential.

Companies and public bodies, captured by the needs of extremist trans activists, have exacted cruel punishments on those expressing completely mainstream - and legal - views on sex and gender.

Inevitably, tribunals have followed a number of these cases. During these, we have actually heard horrifying details of ladies dealt with abominably by employers in thrall to campaigners who prompted and implemented the unlawful adoption of self-ID policies when it concerned single-sex areas.

We have actually become aware of ladies bullied and avoided for questioning the right of those born male to self-identify into ladies's areas, from changing spaces to domestic violence sanctuaries.

Equally inevitably, those females efficient in resisting have actually been winning legal actions.

But even a rock solid case does not make it easy to strike back. Good legal representatives are pricey and the process is draining, both physically and emotionally.

For every single woman who has actually thrived in court, there are much more for whom launching a legal case seemed impossible.

The facility by the author and philanthropist JK Rowling of a fund to support ladies's legal defense of their rights immediately removes any monetary barriers to action for those with feasible cases.

Author JK Rowling has actually established a fund to support ladies's legal protection of their rights

The intervention of Ms Rowling should, today, be concentrating minds in personnels departments across the nation.

Since the Supreme Court ruled, last month, that sex, in law, referred biology rather than documentation, a variety of organisations - in both the general public and economic sectors - have actually issued statements announcing their choices to "think about" the ramifications for their policies.

This extensive and careless complacency stands to cost business - and taxpayer-funded bodies - dear. The realities are easy. If a service is provided on a single sex basis that implies biological sex, not individuality.

The law is the law and no additional factor to consider is needed in order for employers to fulfill their responsibilities under it.

A number of previous legal actions after ladies were unjustly dismissed or bullied out of tasks for declining to agree with the mantra "trans women are women" were possible thanks to the assistance of online crowd-funding projects. Ms Rowling frequently promoted - and donated to - such fundraising events.

Now, she's a one-woman crowd-funder, ready to back the cases of every female wronged at work for speaking the truth about sex.

The JK Rowling Women's Fund will change the battlefield when it comes to females victimized for their legitimate, reality-based views.

At the heart of industrial tribunals there might be vulnerable people betting high stakes but the human expense suggests absolutely nothing to the insurance companies underwriting employers' expenses. For them, it's everything about the bottom line and the possibility that every female with a case now has access to the best legal representatives in the business will, I believe, motivate numerous to advise settlement rather than the embarrassment, and inevitable cost, of more doomed defences.

If one needed evidence that ladies's rights require the fiercest protection, it was available in the action to the launch of Ms Rowling's fund.

With scrumptious pathos, one activist attorney declared online that the Harry Potter creator had "emerged from the shadows" as the funder of what he explained as the "anti feminist biology is destiny motion".

Ms Rowling has never ever remained in the shadows when it pertains to her views on ladies's rights, has she?

Other reactions were, predictably, more violent in tone.

The continuous tribunal involving nurse Sandie Peggie, claiming discrimination and harassment versus NHS Fife and trans-identifying physician Beth Upton, brought the problem of the way so called "gender important" ladies had actually been treated at work to large attention. This is a case that "cut through" with the public and forced some political leaders to resolve a problem 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 significance of biological sex.

If they 'd known what they know now, they added, they would not have enacted favour of the SNP's eventually doomed plan to permit anyone to self-identify into the legally-recognised sex of their choosing.

But while the Peggie case and the subsequent ruling on the legal meaning of sex by the Supreme Court may have forced an embarrassing U-turn by the Labour management on the matter of biological reality, others remain stubbornly committed to defiance of the law.

Naturally, the Scottish Greens - a terrific Wodehousian satire of an advanced cell - remain dedicated to the usage of single-sex areas by anyone who feels they come from that sex.

There have actually been current declarations of resistance from trade unions, too. Unison has actually permitted 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 regional authorities and health boards - is another expensive legal action in the making.

It must not have actually been necessary for to guarantee to underwrite the legal expenses of women discriminated versus for their views on sex and gender. Nobody needs to ever have actually lost a task, a promotion, or an agreement on the basis of their view that sex is immutable and essential.

Nor needs to the author have actually felt it required to establish, in 2022, Beira's Place, a women-only assistance service for victims of sexual violence in the Lothian location.

Ms Rowling's decisions to fund Beira's Place and to finance the legal expenses of females 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 writer's mind however isn't it downright odd that, when he broaches the accomplishments of effective Scots, First Minister John Swinney never mentions the assistance Beira's Place has provided to hundreds of women?

Money is not the only thing women doing something about it to protect their rights require. Ask anybody who has actually been through the tribunal process and they'll inform you that the emotional assistance of pals and allies is vital.

This convenience will not be in short supply for those females who get support for their cases from the JK Rowling Women's Fund. The writer belongs to a worldwide network of advocates, battling to safeguard females's rights versus the needs of trans activists, and calls to action and support do not go unheeded.

Let the nation's personnels departments brace themselves. A most amazing plot twist has actually just been composed.