For years, now, ladies have actually been losing jobs after bold to reveal the view that biology is genuine and essential.

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

Inevitably, tribunals have actually followed a number of these cases. During these, we have actually heard terrible information of women dealt with abominably by employers in thrall to advocates who advised and implemented the unlawful adoption of self-ID policies when it concerned single-sex spaces.

We've heard of females bullied and shunned for questioning the right of those born male to self-identify into ladies's areas, from altering rooms to domestic violence refuges.

Equally undoubtedly, those women efficient in combating back have been winning legal actions.

But even a rock strong case does not make it simple to strike back. Good legal representatives are expensive and the process is draining pipes, both physically and mentally.

For each female who has actually thrived in court, there are a lot more for whom introducing a legal case appeared difficult.

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

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

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

Since the Supreme Court ruled, last month, that sex, in law, referred biology instead of documentation, a number of organisations - in both the general public and personal sectors - have actually provided declarations revealing their choices to "think about" the implications for their policies.

This prevalent and reckless complacency stands to cost business - and taxpayer-funded bodies - dear. The facts are simple. If a service is offered on a single sex basis that means biological sex, not individuality.

The law is the law and no more consideration is needed in order for companies to fulfill their commitments under it.

A variety of past legal actions after ladies were unjustly dismissed or bullied out of tasks for refusing to agree with the mantra "trans ladies are women" were possible thanks to the support of online crowd-funding projects. Ms Rowling frequently promoted - and donated to - such charity events.

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

The JK Rowling Women's Fund will transform the battlefield when it comes to women discriminated against for their genuine, reality-based views.

At the heart of commercial tribunals there might be susceptible people playing for high stakes but the human cost implies nothing to the insurance providers financing employers' expenses. For them, it's all about the bottom line and the prospect that every lady with a case now has access to the best attorneys in the company will, I presume, encourage lots of to urge settlement instead of the embarrassment, and inescapable expense, of more doomed defences.

If one needed evidence that women's rights require the fiercest protection, it came in the response to the launch of Ms Rowling's fund.

With tasty pathos, one activist lawyer stated online that the Harry Potter developer 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 ladies's rights, has she?

Other actions were, naturally, more violent in tone.

The continuous tribunal involving nurse Sandie Peggie, claiming discrimination and harassment versus NHS Fife and trans-identifying doctor Beth Upton, brought the issue of the way so called "gender critical" females had actually been treated at work to large attention. This is a case that "cut through" with the general public and required some political leaders to address a concern they preferred to avoid.

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

If they 'd understood what they know now, they included, they would not have voted in favour of the SNP's ultimately doomed strategy to enable anyone to self-identify into the legally-recognised sex of their picking.

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 leadership on the matter of biological truth, others stay stubbornly dedicated to defiance of the law.

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

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

It must not have actually been necessary for JK Rowling to guarantee to finance the legal costs of females discriminated against for their views on sex and gender. Nobody ought to ever have lost a task, a promotion, or an agreement on the basis of their view that sex is immutable and crucial.

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

Ms Rowling's choices to money Beira's Place and to underwrite the legal costs of females discriminated against 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 know that recognition is the last thing on the writer's mind however isn't it downright strange that, when he the accomplishments of effective Scots, First Minister John Swinney never ever mentions the support Beira's Place has provided to hundreds of females?

Money is not the only thing females doing something about it to defend their rights require. Ask anyone who has actually been through the tribunal procedure and they'll tell you that the emotional support of pals and allies is important.

This comfort will not remain in short supply for those women who receive backing for their cases from the JK Rowling Women's Fund. The writer becomes part of a global network of campaigners, fighting to secure women's rights against the demands of trans activists, and contacts us to action and assistance do not go unheeded.

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