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For many years, now, women have actually been losing jobs after daring to express the view that biology is genuine and essential.

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

Inevitably, tribunals have followed a number of these cases. During these, we have actually heard horrifying details of females dealt with abominably by companies in thrall to campaigners who urged and enforced the unlawful adoption of self-ID policies when it concerned single-sex spaces.

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

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

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

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

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

Author JK Rowling has 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, referred biology instead of documents, a variety of organisations - in both the public and economic sectors - have released statements revealing their decisions to "consider" the ramifications for their policies.

This widespread and careless complacency stands to cost companies - and taxpayer-funded bodies - dear. The truths are basic. If a service is offered on a single sex basis that means biological sex, not individuality.

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

A number of previous legal actions after females were unjustly dismissed or bullied out of tasks for declining to agree with the mantra "trans ladies are women" were possible thanks to the assistance of online crowd-funding projects. Ms Rowling frequently promoted - and contributed to - such fundraising events.

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

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

At the heart of industrial tribunals there may be vulnerable individuals playing for high stakes but the human cost indicates nothing to the insurance providers financing companies' costs. For them, it's all about the bottom line and the prospect that every female with a case now has access to the finest attorneys in business will, I think, encourage lots of to urge settlement rather than the humiliation, and inevitable expense, of more doomed defences.

If one required proof that women's rights require the fiercest security, it can be found in the action to the launch of Ms Rowling's fund.

With delicious pathos, one activist legal representative declared 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 movement".

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

Other responses were, predictably, more violent in tone.

The continuous tribunal involving 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 crucial" ladies had been dealt with at work to large attention. This is a case that "cut through" with the general public and required some politicians to resolve an issue they preferred to prevent.

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

If they 'd known what they know now, they added, they would not have enacted favour of the SNP's ultimately doomed strategy to allow anybody to self-identify into the legally-recognised sex of their picking.

But while the Peggie case and the subsequent judgment on the legal meaning of sex by the Supreme Court might have forced a humiliating U-turn by the Labour leadership on the matter of biological truth, others remain stubbornly committed to defiance of the law.

Naturally, the Scottish Greens - a terrific Wodehousian satire of an advanced 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 actually allowed 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 local authorities and health boards - is another pricey legal action in the making.

It must not have been necessary for JK Rowling to ensure to underwrite the legal expenses of women discriminated against for their views on sex and gender. Nobody needs to ever have lost a job, a promo, or an agreement on the basis of their view that sex is immutable and essential.

Nor must the author have actually felt it essential 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 finance 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 political leaders.

I understand that recognition is the last thing on the author's mind but isn't it downright strange that, when he talks of the accomplishments of effective Scots, First Minister John Swinney never points out the support Beira's Place has offered to hundreds of women?

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 tell you that the psychological assistance of pals and allies is important.

This comfort will not remain in short supply for those ladies who get backing for their cases from the JK Rowling Women's Fund. The writer belongs to an international network of advocates, battling to protect women's rights versus the demands of trans activists, and contacts us to action and support do not go unheeded.

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