For several years, now, ladies have been losing tasks after daring 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 cruel penalties 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 terrible details of females treated abominably by companies in thrall to campaigners who advised and implemented the illegal adoption of self-ID policies when it came to single-sex spaces.

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

Equally undoubtedly, those women efficient in resisting have been winning legal actions.

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

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

The establishment by the author and philanthropist JK Rowling of a fund to support ladies's legal defense of their rights instantly gets rid of any monetary barriers to action for those with practical cases.

Author JK Rowling has actually established a fund to support ladies's legal security of their rights

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

Since the Supreme Court ruled, last month, that sex, in law, was a matter of biology rather than documentation, a number of organisations - in both the public and personal sectors - have actually released statements announcing their decisions to "consider" the ramifications for their policies.

This widespread and careless complacency stands to cost business - and taxpayer-funded bodies - dear. The facts are simple. If a service is used on a single sex basis that indicates biological sex, not individuality.

The law is the law and no more consideration is needed in order for employers to meet their responsibilities under it.

A variety of previous legal actions after women were unfairly dismissed or bullied out of tasks for refusing to concur with the mantra "trans women are ladies" were possible thanks to the support of online crowd-funding campaigns. Ms Rowling frequently promoted - and donated to - such fundraising events.

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

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

At the heart of industrial tribunals there may be susceptible people betting high stakes however the human expense indicates nothing to the insurance providers underwriting companies' expenses. For them, it's everything about the bottom line and the possibility that every lady with a case now has access to the finest lawyers in business will, I think, motivate numerous to urge settlement rather than the embarrassment, and inevitable expense, of more doomed defences.

If one needed evidence that females's rights are in need of the fiercest security, it can be found in the reaction to the launch of Ms Rowling's fund.

With scrumptious pathos, one activist attorney stated online that the Harry Potter developer had "emerged from the shadows" as the funder of what he as the "anti feminist biology is fate movement".

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

Other responses were, naturally, more violent in tone.

The continuous tribunal involving nurse Sandie Peggie, declaring discrimination and harassment against NHS Fife and trans-identifying doctor Beth Upton, brought the problem of the method so called "gender vital" women had actually been dealt with at work to broad attention. This is a case that "cut through" with the public and forced some politicians to resolve a problem they chose to avoid.

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

If they 'd known what they understand now, they included, they would not have actually enacted favour of the SNP's eventually doomed strategy to permit anyone to self-identify into the legally-recognised sex of their picking.

But while the Peggie case and the subsequent ruling on the legal meaning of sex by the Supreme Court may have required an embarrassing 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 terrific Wodehousian satire of an innovative cell - stay dedicated to the 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 actually 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 pricey legal action in the making.

It needs to not have actually been essential for JK Rowling to ensure to finance the legal costs of ladies discriminated versus for their views on sex and gender. Nobody should ever have actually lost a task, a promo, or an agreement on the basis of their view that sex is immutable and crucial.

Nor ought to the author have felt it essential to develop, in 2022, Beira's Place, a women-only assistance 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 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 author's mind but isn't it downright strange that, when he talks of the accomplishments of successful Scots, First Minister John Swinney never mentions the assistance Beira's Place has given to hundreds of ladies?

Money is not the only thing ladies acting to safeguard their rights need. Ask anybody who has actually been through the tribunal procedure and they'll tell you that the psychological support of friends and allies is essential.