For many years, now, females have been losing tasks after bold to express the view that biology is genuine and essential.

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

Inevitably, tribunals have actually followed a number of these cases. During these, we've heard horrifying information of women dealt with abominably by companies in thrall to advocates who advised and enforced the unlawful adoption of self-ID policies when it pertained to single-sex areas.

We have actually heard of women bullied and shunned for questioning the right of those born male to self-identify into women's spaces, from changing spaces to domestic violence refuges.

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

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

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

The establishment by the novelist and philanthropist JK Rowling of a fund to support ladies's legal protection of their rights immediately gets rid of any financial barriers to action for those with viable cases.

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

The intervention of Ms Rowling should, right now, be focusing minds in human resources departments across the country.

Since the Supreme Court ruled, last month, that sex, in law, was a matter of biology instead of paperwork, a variety of organisations - in both the general public and economic sectors - have actually provided statements revealing their choices to "think about" the implications for their policies.

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

The law is the law and no further factor to consider is required in order for employers to satisfy their commitments under it.

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

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

The JK Rowling Women's Fund will change the battlefield when it concerns ladies discriminated versus for their genuine, reality-based views.

At the heart of commercial tribunals there may be vulnerable individuals playing for high stakes but the human cost implies nothing to the insurance providers underwriting companies' 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 attorneys in the service will, I think, encourage many to urge settlement rather than the humiliation, and unavoidable expense, of more doomed defences.

If one required proof that ladies's rights are in need of the fiercest protection, it can be found in the reaction to the launch of Ms Rowling's fund.

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

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

Other responses were, predictably, more violent in tone.

The continuous tribunal involving nurse Sandie Peggie, declaring discrimination and harassment against NHS Fife and trans-identifying physician Beth Upton, brought the issue of the method so called "gender crucial" ladies had been dealt with at work to broad attention. This is a case that "cut through" with the public and forced some political leaders to attend to a concern they preferred to avoid.

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

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

But while the Peggie case and the subsequent judgment on the legal meaning of sex by the Supreme Court may have required a humiliating U-turn by the Labour management on the matter of biological reality, others stay stubbornly devoted to defiance of the law.

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

There have been current statements of resistance from trade unions, too. Unison has actually permitted a trans woman 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 been necessary for JK Rowling to ensure to underwrite the legal costs of females discriminated versus for their views on sex and gender. Nobody should ever have actually lost a job, a promo, or a contract on the basis of their view that sex is immutable and crucial.

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

Ms Rowling's decisions to money Beira's Place and to finance the legal costs of females victimized for believing 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 political leaders.

I know that acknowledgment is the last thing on the writer's mind however isn't it downright odd that, when he talks of the accomplishments of effective Scots, First Minister John Swinney never ever discusses the support Beira's Place has offered to numerous ladies?

Money is not the only thing ladies taking action to defend their rights require. Ask anybody who has been through the tribunal procedure and they'll inform you that the psychological assistance of pals and allies is necessary.

This comfort will not be in short supply for those women who receive support for their cases from the JK Rowling Women's Fund. The author belongs to a worldwide network of advocates, battling to protect ladies's rights versus the demands of trans activists, and calls to action and support do not go unheeded.

Let the nation's human resources departments brace themselves. A most impressive plot twist has actually simply been written.