For several years, now, ladies have been losing tasks after bold to express the view that biology is real and crucial.

Companies and public bodies, recorded by the needs of extremist trans activists, have actually exacted cruel penalties on those expressing 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 details of ladies treated abominably by employers in thrall to campaigners who advised and enforced the unlawful adoption of self-ID policies when it came to single-sex areas.

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

Equally inevitably, those females capable of battling back have actually been winning legal actions.

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

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

The facility by the author and philanthropist JK Rowling of a fund to support women's legal protection of their rights instantly gets rid of any financial barriers to action for those with feasible cases.

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

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

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

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

The law is the law and no further consideration is needed in order for employers to satisfy their commitments under it.

A number of previous legal actions after women were unjustly dismissed or bullied out of tasks for declining to concur with the mantra "trans women are ladies" were possible thanks to the support of online crowd-funding projects. Ms Rowling frequently promoted - and donated to - such fundraisers.

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

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

At the heart of industrial tribunals there might be vulnerable individuals playing for high stakes but the human cost indicates absolutely nothing to the insurers financing companies' costs. 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 the business will, I suspect, motivate many to advise settlement instead of the embarrassment, and unavoidable expense, of more doomed defences.

If one required evidence that ladies's rights need the fiercest protection, it came in the reaction to the launch of Ms Rowling's fund.

With scrumptious pathos, one activist lawyer stated online that the Harry Potter creator had "emerged from the shadows" as the funder of what he referred to as the "anti feminist biology is destiny motion".

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

Other responses were, predictably, more violent in tone.

The continuous tribunal involving 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" females had actually been treated at work to broad attention. This is a case that "cut through" with the public and required some political leaders to address a concern they preferred to prevent.

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

If they 'd known what they understand now, they added, they would not have actually enacted favour of the SNP's eventually doomed plan to enable anybody to self-identify into the legally-recognised sex of their choosing.

But while the Peggie case and the subsequent judgment on the legal significance of sex by the Supreme Court might have forced an embarrassing U-turn by the Labour leadership on the matter of biological reality, others remain stubbornly devoted to defiance of the law.

Naturally, the Scottish Greens - a fantastic Wodehousian satire of a revolutionary cell - remain committed to making use of single-sex spaces by anybody who feels they come from that sex.

There have actually been current declarations of resistance from trade unions, too. Unison has permitted a trans female to run for a women-only position on its national executive council.

But every act of performative defiance by well-funded trade unions - or taxpayer-funded regional authorities and health boards - is another costly legal action in the making.

It ought to not have been essential for JK Rowling to ensure to underwrite the legal costs of women victimized for their views on sex and gender. Nobody ought to ever have lost a task, a promo, or an agreement on the basis of their view that sex is immutable and essential.

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

Ms Rowling's choices to fund Beira's Place and to underwrite the legal expenses of women discriminated against for thinking in the reality 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 recognition is the last thing on the writer's mind however isn't it downright strange that, when he broaches the achievements of successful 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 women acting to safeguard their rights require. Ask anyone who has actually been through the tribunal process and they'll inform you that the psychological assistance of pals and allies is essential.

This comfort will not remain in short supply for those females who get backing for their cases from the JK Rowling Women's Fund. The author is part of a global network of campaigners, battling to protect females's rights against the needs of trans activists, and calls to action and assistance do not go unheeded.

Let the nation's personnels departments brace themselves. A most twist has actually simply been written.