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

Companies and public bodies, recorded by the needs 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 ladies dealt with abominably by companies in thrall to campaigners who prompted and imposed the unlawful adoption of self-ID policies when it came to single-sex spaces.

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

Equally undoubtedly, those females capable of combating back have actually been winning legal actions.

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

For each female who has actually triumphed in court, there are a lot more for whom launching a legal case appeared impossible.

The establishment by the novelist and benefactor JK Rowling of a fund to support women's legal protection of their rights instantly eliminates any financial barriers to action for those with feasible cases.

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

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

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

This extensive and reckless complacency stands to cost business - and taxpayer-funded bodies - dear. The truths are basic. If a service is offered on a single sex basis that suggests biological sex, not individual identity.

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

A variety of past legal actions after women were unfairly dismissed or bullied out of tasks for declining to agree with the mantra "trans women are females" were possible thanks to the assistance of online crowd-funding projects. Ms Rowling frequently promoted - and contributed to - such charity events.

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

The JK Rowling Women's Fund will transform the battleground when it pertains to women victimized for their legitimate, reality-based views.

At the heart of industrial tribunals there may be vulnerable people betting high stakes however the human expense implies absolutely nothing to the insurance companies underwriting companies' expenses. For them, it's everything about the bottom line and the prospect that every female with a case now has access to the very best in business will, I believe, motivate lots of to prompt settlement rather than the embarrassment, and inescapable cost, of more doomed defences.

If one needed evidence that women's rights need the fiercest security, 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 explained as the "anti feminist biology is fate motion".

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

Other responses were, naturally, more violent in tone.

The ongoing tribunal including nurse Sandie Peggie, claiming discrimination and harassment versus NHS Fife and trans-identifying physician Beth Upton, brought the concern of the way so called "gender important" women had actually been treated at work to broad attention. This is a case that "cut through" with the general public and required some political leaders to deal with a problem they chose to avoid.

Scottish Labour's leader Anas Sarwar and his deputy, Jackie Baillie, revealed their support 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 voted in favour of the SNP's ultimately doomed plan 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 significance of sex by the Supreme Court might have forced a humiliating U-turn by the Labour management on the matter of biological truth, others remain stubbornly dedicated to defiance of the law.

Naturally, the Scottish Greens - an excellent Wodehousian satire of an innovative cell - remain committed to the use of single-sex spaces by anyone who feels they come from that sex.

There have actually been recent declarations of resistance from trade unions, too. Unison has 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 ought to not have been needed for JK Rowling to ensure to underwrite the legal expenses of females victimized for their views on sex and gender. Nobody should ever have lost a job, a promo, or a contract on the basis of their view that sex is immutable and crucial.

Nor must the novelist have actually felt it necessary 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 finance the legal costs of ladies discriminated versus 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 but isn't it downright strange that, when he talks of the accomplishments of effective Scots, First Minister John Swinney never ever points out the assistance Beira's Place has provided to numerous females?

Money is not the only thing ladies taking action to defend their rights need. Ask anybody who has been through the tribunal procedure and they'll inform you that the emotional support of good friends and allies is important.

This comfort will not be in short supply for those females who receive backing for their cases from the JK Rowling Women's Fund. The author becomes part of a worldwide network of advocates, fighting to protect ladies's rights versus the needs of trans activists, and calls to action and assistance do not go unheeded.

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