For several years, now, women have actually been losing jobs 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 followed a number of these cases. During these, we have actually heard scary information of females treated abominably by companies in thrall to advocates who prompted and imposed the unlawful adoption of self-ID policies when it concerned single-sex areas.

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

Equally undoubtedly, those ladies efficient in combating back have been winning legal actions.

But even a rock solid case does not make it easy to strike back. Good legal representatives are expensive and the procedure is draining pipes, both physically and mentally.

For every single woman who has actually thrived in court, there are much more for whom releasing a legal case appeared difficult.

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

Author JK Rowling has established 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 nation.

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

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

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

A number of previous legal actions after ladies were unfairly dismissed or bullied out of jobs for declining to agree with the mantra "trans women are women" were possible thanks to the support of online crowd-funding campaigns. Ms Rowling regularly promoted - and donated to - such fundraising events.

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

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

At the heart of commercial tribunals there might be susceptible individuals playing for high stakes but the human cost implies absolutely nothing to the insurance companies underwriting employers' costs. For them, it's everything about the bottom line and the prospect that every lady with a case now has access to the finest attorneys in business will, I presume, encourage lots of to urge settlement instead of the humiliation, and unavoidable cost, of more doomed defences.

If one required evidence that women's rights need the fiercest defense, it can be found in the response to the launch of Ms Rowling's fund.

With scrumptious pathos, one activist legal representative 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 been in the shadows when it pertains to her views on women's rights, has she?

Other actions were, predictably, more violent in tone.

The ongoing tribunal including 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 vital" ladies had been dealt with at work to broad attention. This is a case that "cut through" with the general public and required some politicians to resolve an issue they preferred to avoid.

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

If they 'd understood what they understand now, they added, they would not have actually enacted favour of the SNP's ultimately 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 meaning 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 committed to defiance of the law.

Naturally, the Scottish Greens - a fantastic Wodehousian satire of a revolutionary cell - remain dedicated to the use of single-sex spaces by anyone who feels they belong to 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 national executive council.

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

It needs to not have been essential for JK Rowling to ensure to finance the of women victimized for their views on sex and gender. Nobody must ever have actually lost a task, a promotion, or a contract on the basis of their view that sex is immutable and important.

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

Ms Rowling's choices to money Beira's Place and to underwrite the legal costs of ladies 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 politicians.

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

Money is not the only thing females taking action to defend their rights need. Ask anyone who has actually been through the tribunal procedure and they'll tell you that the psychological assistance of pals and allies is necessary.

This comfort will not remain in brief supply for those ladies who receive support for their cases from the JK Rowling Women's Fund. The writer belongs to an international network of advocates, battling to secure ladies's rights against 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 simply been composed.