For several years, now, ladies have actually been losing tasks after daring to reveal the view that biology is genuine and important.

Companies and public bodies, recorded by the demands of extremist trans activists, have actually exacted vicious punishments on those revealing perfectly mainstream - and legal - views on sex and gender.

Inevitably, tribunals have followed a number of these cases. During these, we have actually heard terrible information of females dealt with abominably by employers in thrall to campaigners who urged and implemented the prohibited adoption of self-ID policies when it pertained to single-sex areas.

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

Equally inevitably, those ladies capable of combating back 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 pipes, both physically and mentally.

For every single female who has triumphed in court, there are much more for whom releasing a legal case seemed impossible.

The facility by the author and benefactor JK Rowling of a fund to support women's legal defense of their rights right away gets rid of any financial barriers to action for those with viable cases.

Author JK Rowling has actually developed a fund to support females's legal defense of their rights

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

Since the Supreme Court ruled, last month, that sex, in law, was a matter of biology rather than paperwork, a number of organisations - in both the public and economic sectors - have provided declarations announcing their choices to "consider" the implications for their policies.

This widespread and reckless complacency stands to cost companies - and taxpayer-funded bodies - dear. The realities are easy. If a service is used on a single sex basis that indicates biological sex, not individuality.

The law is the law and no more consideration is required in order for employers to meet their obligations under it.

A variety of previous legal actions after women were unfairly dismissed or bullied out of jobs for refusing to concur with the mantra "trans females are women" were possible thanks to the assistance of online crowd-funding campaigns. Ms Rowling regularly promoted - and contributed to - such fundraising events.

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

The JK Rowling Women's Fund will change the battleground when it pertains to females victimized for their genuine, reality-based views.

At the heart of commercial tribunals there might be susceptible people betting high stakes however the human expense indicates absolutely nothing to the insurance companies financing employers' expenses. For them, it's everything about the bottom line and the prospect that every lady with a case now has access to the very best lawyers in the company will, I think, encourage numerous to advise settlement rather than the embarrassment, and unavoidable expense, of more doomed defences.

If one required evidence that females's rights are in requirement of the fiercest security, it can be found in the action to the launch of Ms Rowling's fund.

With scrumptious pathos, one activist lawyer declared online that the Harry Potter creator had "emerged from the shadows" as the funder of what he referred to as the "anti feminist biology is fate movement".

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

Other responses were, naturally, more violent in tone.

The ongoing tribunal including nurse Sandie Peggie, claiming discrimination and harassment against NHS Fife and trans-identifying doctor Beth Upton, brought the problem of the method so called "gender vital" females had actually been at work to large attention. This is a case that "cut through" with the general public and forced some political leaders to deal with a problem they chose to prevent.

Scottish Labour's leader Anas Sarwar and his deputy, Jackie Baillie, announced their assistance for Ms Peggie and declared their belief in the importance of biological sex.

If they 'd understood what they know now, they added, they would not have actually enacted favour of the SNP's eventually doomed plan to enable anybody 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 a revolutionary cell - stay committed to the usage of single-sex spaces by anybody who feels they come from that sex.

There have actually been current statements of resistance from trade unions, too. Unison has permitted a trans female 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 local authorities and health boards - is another costly legal action in the making.

It must not have actually been necessary for JK Rowling to ensure to underwrite the legal expenses of females discriminated versus for their views on sex and gender. Nobody ought to ever have lost a job, a promotion, or an agreement on the basis of their view that sex is immutable and essential.

Nor should the novelist have actually felt it required to develop, in 2022, Beira's Place, a women-only support service for victims of sexual violence in the Lothian area.

Ms Rowling's choices to money Beira's Place and to finance the legal costs of females victimized for thinking in the truth of sex are acts of feminist philanthropy which, in a world not made batty by gender ideology, would have been hailed by our politicians.

I understand that recognition is the last thing on the writer's mind but isn't it downright weird that, when he broaches the achievements of effective Scots, First Minister John Swinney never ever discusses the assistance Beira's Place has offered to hundreds of females?

Money is not the only thing women doing something about it to safeguard their rights require. Ask anyone who has been through the tribunal process and they'll tell you that the psychological assistance of friends and allies is essential.

This convenience will not be in brief supply for those females who get backing for their cases from the JK Rowling Women's Fund. The writer belongs to a worldwide network of campaigners, battling to protect females's rights against the demands of trans activists, and contacts us to action and support do not go unheeded.

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