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

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

Inevitably, tribunals have actually followed a variety of these cases. During these, we've heard terrible information of females treated abominably by employers in thrall to advocates who urged and implemented the prohibited adoption of self-ID policies when it concerned single-sex spaces.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This extensive and negligent 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 indicates biological sex, not personal 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 previous legal actions after females were unfairly dismissed or bullied out of tasks for declining to agree with the mantra "trans ladies are females" were possible thanks to the support of online crowd-funding projects. Ms Rowling frequently 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 reality about sex.

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

At the heart of industrial tribunals there may be susceptible people betting high stakes however the human cost implies absolutely nothing to the insurance companies underwriting companies' expenses. For them, it's everything about the bottom line and the possibility that every female with a case now has access to the very best attorneys in business will, I presume, motivate numerous to urge settlement rather than the humiliation, and inevitable expense, of more doomed defences.

If one needed evidence that women's rights are in need of the fiercest security, it came in the action to the launch of Ms Rowling's fund.

With scrumptious pathos, one activist lawyer declared 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 been in the shadows when it concerns her views on women's rights, has she?

Other responses were, naturally, more violent in tone.

The continuous tribunal including nurse Sandie Peggie, claiming discrimination and harassment against NHS Fife and trans-identifying physician Beth Upton, brought the problem of the method so called "gender vital" ladies had been treated at work to broad attention. This is a case that "cut through" with the general public and forced some politicians to deal with a concern they preferred to prevent.

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 understood what they understand now, they included, they would not have voted in favour of the SNP's eventually doomed strategy to allow anyone 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 a humiliating U-turn by the Labour management on the matter of biological truth, others remain stubbornly devoted to defiance of the law.

Naturally, the Scottish Greens - a terrific Wodehousian satire of an advanced cell - stay committed to the usage of single-sex areas by anyone who feels they belong to that sex.

There have been recent statements of resistance from trade unions, too. Unison has allowed 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 local authorities and health boards - is another expensive legal action in the making.

It needs to not have been needed for JK Rowling to guarantee to underwrite the legal expenses of ladies victimized for their views on sex and gender. Nobody must ever have actually lost a task, a promo, or an agreement on the basis of their view that sex is immutable and essential.

Nor ought to the author have felt it essential to establish, in 2022, Beira's Place, a women-only assistance service for victims of sexual violence in the Lothian area.

Ms Rowling's decisions to fund Beira's Place and to underwrite the legal costs of women discriminated versus 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 political leaders.

I know that recognition is the last thing on the writer's mind but isn't it downright strange that, when he talks of the achievements of successful Scots, First Minister John Swinney never mentions the assistance Beira's Place has provided to numerous ladies?

Money is not the only thing women doing something about it to defend their rights require. Ask anybody who has been through the tribunal process and they'll inform you that the emotional support of buddies and allies is vital.

This convenience will not be in short supply for those women who get backing for their cases from the JK Rowling Women's Fund. The writer belongs to a global network of campaigners, battling to secure females's rights against the demands of trans activists, and calls to action and assistance do not go unheeded.

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