For several years, now, females have actually been losing tasks after bold to reveal the view that biology is real and important.

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

Inevitably, tribunals have actually followed a variety of these cases. During these, we have actually heard terrible information of females dealt with abominably by companies in thrall to advocates who urged and enforced the unlawful adoption of self-ID policies when it came to single-sex areas.

We have actually become aware of ladies bullied and shunned for questioning the right of those born male to self-identify into females's spaces, from altering spaces to domestic violence havens.

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

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

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

The facility by the novelist and benefactor JK Rowling of a fund to support females's legal protection of their rights right away gets rid of any financial barriers to action for those with feasible cases.

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

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

Since the Supreme Court ruled, last month, that sex, in law, referred biology rather than paperwork, a variety of organisations - in both the public and economic sectors - have issued statements revealing their choices to "consider" the implications for their policies.

This widespread and negligent 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 suggests biological sex, not individual identity.

The law is the law and no further factor to consider is needed in order for companies to fulfill their commitments under it.

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

Now, she's a one-woman crowd-funder, prepared 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 pertains to females discriminated against for their genuine, reality-based views.

At the heart of industrial tribunals there might be susceptible individuals betting high stakes but the human expense suggests absolutely nothing to the insurance companies underwriting companies' expenses. For them, it's all about the bottom line and the prospect that every woman with a case now has access to the best legal representatives in business will, I believe, encourage lots of to prompt settlement instead of the humiliation, and inescapable cost, of more doomed defences.

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

With delicious pathos, one activist legal representative 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 movement".

Ms Rowling has never been in the shadows when it comes 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 doctor Beth Upton, brought the problem of the way so called "gender critical" women had been treated at work to broad attention. This is a case that "cut through" with the public and required some politicians to resolve a problem they chose to avoid.

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

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

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

Naturally, the Scottish Greens - a fantastic Wodehousian satire of an innovative cell - stay dedicated to the use of single-sex areas by anybody who feels they come from that sex.

There have actually been recent statements of resistance from trade unions, too. Unison has 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 expensive legal action in the making.

It must not have been needed for JK Rowling to guarantee to finance the legal costs of females victimized 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 important.

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

Ms Rowling's choices to money Beira's Place and to finance the legal expenses 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 acknowledgment is the last thing on the author's mind but isn't it downright odd that, when he broaches the achievements of effective Scots, First Minister John Swinney never ever points out the support Beira's Place has offered to hundreds of females?

Money is not the only thing ladies doing something about it to protect their rights need. Ask anybody who has actually been through the tribunal process and they'll tell you that the emotional assistance of good friends and allies is important.

This convenience will not be in short supply for those females who receive support for their cases from the JK Rowling Women's Fund. The author becomes part of a global network of campaigners, fighting to safeguard ladies's rights versus the demands of trans activists, and calls to action and assistance do not go unheeded.

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