For many years, now, ladies have been losing jobs after bold to express the view that biology is real and important.

Companies and public bodies, caught by the demands of extremist trans activists, have actually exacted harsh penalties on those revealing completely mainstream - and legal - views on sex and gender.

Inevitably, tribunals have followed a number of these cases. During these, we've heard scary details of women treated abominably by companies in thrall to campaigners who urged and imposed the prohibited adoption of self-ID policies when it pertained to single-sex areas.

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

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

But even a rock solid case does not make it simple to retaliate. Good lawyers are pricey and the procedure is draining pipes, both physically and mentally.

For every single female who has actually thrived in court, there are lots of more for whom launching a legal case seemed difficult.

The establishment by the novelist and philanthropist JK Rowling of a fund to support females's legal protection of their rights right away gets rid of any monetary barriers to action for those with viable cases.

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

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

Since the Supreme Court ruled, last month, that sex, in law, referred biology instead of documents, a variety of organisations - in both the general public and private sectors - have issued declarations revealing their choices to "consider" the ramifications for their policies.

This extensive and careless complacency stands to cost companies - and taxpayer-funded bodies - dear. The realities are easy. If a service is offered on a single sex basis that suggests biological sex, not individuality.

The law is the law and no further factor to consider is required in order for companies to satisfy their responsibilities under it.

A number of past legal actions after ladies were unfairly dismissed or bullied out of jobs for refusing to agree with the mantra "trans females are females" were possible thanks to the support of online crowd-funding projects. Ms Rowling frequently promoted - and contributed to - such fundraisers.

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

The JK Rowling Women's Fund will transform the battlefield when it comes to women discriminated versus for their legitimate, reality-based views.

At the heart of commercial tribunals there may be vulnerable individuals betting high stakes however the human cost means nothing to the insurers underwriting employers' expenses. For them, it's everything about the bottom line and the prospect that every female with a case now has access to the finest attorneys in the company will, I suspect, encourage many to urge settlement instead of the embarrassment, and inevitable cost, of more doomed defences.

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

With tasty pathos, one activist attorney declared online that the Harry Potter creator had "emerged from the shadows" as the funder of what he described as the "anti feminist biology is destiny movement".

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

Other responses were, predictably, more violent in tone.

The ongoing tribunal involving nurse Sandie Peggie, claiming discrimination and harassment against NHS Fife and trans-identifying medical professional Beth Upton, brought the issue of the way so called "gender vital" ladies had been treated at work to large attention. This is a case that "cut through" with the general public and required some politicians to address a concern they preferred to prevent.

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

If they 'd known what they know now, they added, they would not have actually of the SNP's eventually doomed strategy to allow 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 might have forced an embarrassing U-turn by the Labour leadership on the matter of biological truth, others stay stubbornly committed to defiance of the law.

Naturally, the Scottish Greens - an excellent Wodehousian satire of an advanced cell - stay dedicated to making use of single-sex spaces by anybody who feels they belong to that sex.

There have been recent declarations of resistance from trade unions, too. Unison has permitted a trans lady 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 should not have actually been necessary for JK Rowling to guarantee to underwrite the legal costs of ladies discriminated versus for their views on sex and gender. Nobody must ever have actually lost a task, a promo, or a contract on the basis of their view that sex is immutable and essential.

Nor should the novelist have 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 decisions to money Beira's Place and to underwrite the legal expenses of ladies discriminated against 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 unusual that, when he talks of the accomplishments of effective Scots, First Minister John Swinney never ever discusses the support Beira's Place has provided to numerous ladies?

Money is not the only thing females taking action to defend their rights require. Ask anybody who has actually been through the tribunal procedure and they'll tell you that the emotional support of friends and allies is essential.

This convenience will not remain 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 campaigners, fighting to secure ladies's rights versus the needs of trans activists, and contacts us to action and assistance do not go unheeded.

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