For years, now, females have actually been losing tasks after daring to express the view that biology is real and essential.

Companies and public bodies, caught by the needs of extremist trans activists, have exacted terrible penalties on those revealing perfectly 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 advocates who prompted and enforced the prohibited adoption of self-ID policies when it pertained to single-sex areas.

We've become aware of ladies bullied and avoided for questioning the right of those born male to self-identify into women's spaces, from altering rooms to domestic violence sanctuaries.

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

But even a rock strong case does not make it easy to retaliate. Good legal representatives are costly and the process is draining, both physically and emotionally.

For every single female who has triumphed in court, there are a lot more for whom launching a legal case seemed impossible.

The facility by the author and philanthropist JK Rowling of a fund to support females's legal protection of their rights immediately eliminates any monetary barriers to action for those with practical 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 human resources departments throughout the country.

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

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

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

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

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

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

At the heart of industrial tribunals there may be vulnerable individuals playing for high stakes but the human cost suggests nothing to the insurance providers underwriting employers' costs. For them, it's all about the bottom line and the prospect that every lady with a case now has access to the best legal representatives in business will, I think, encourage numerous to advise settlement rather than the embarrassment, and unavoidable expense, of more doomed defences.

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

With scrumptious pathos, one activist attorney 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 motion".

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

Other reactions were, naturally, more violent in tone.

The continuous tribunal including nurse Sandie Peggie, claiming discrimination and NHS Fife and trans-identifying doctor Beth Upton, brought the issue of the way 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 required some politicians to resolve an issue they chose 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 known what they know now, they added, they would not have enacted favour of the SNP's ultimately doomed strategy to enable anybody 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 required an embarrassing U-turn by the Labour management on the matter of biological reality, others remain stubbornly dedicated to defiance of the law.

Naturally, the Scottish Greens - a great Wodehousian satire of an advanced cell - stay committed to the use of single-sex spaces by anyone who feels they come from that sex.

There have been recent declarations of resistance from trade unions, too. Unison has actually allowed a trans woman 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 expensive legal action in the making.

It must not have actually been required for JK Rowling to ensure to finance the legal expenses of females discriminated versus for their views on sex and gender. Nobody must ever have actually lost a task, a promo, or an agreement on the basis of their view that sex is immutable and important.

Nor needs to the author have actually 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 fund Beira's Place and to underwrite the legal costs of females victimized 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 acknowledgment is the last thing on the author's mind however isn't it downright strange that, when he talks of the achievements of successful Scots, First Minister John Swinney never ever discusses the support Beira's Place has provided to hundreds of females?

Money is not the only thing ladies acting to defend their rights require. Ask anybody who has been through the tribunal process and they'll tell you that the psychological assistance of pals and allies is important.

This convenience will not remain in brief supply for those women who get backing for their cases from the JK Rowling Women's Fund. The author is part of an international network of campaigners, combating to secure ladies's rights against the needs of trans activists, and contacts us to action and support do not go unheeded.

Let the country's personnels departments brace themselves. A most amazing plot twist has actually just been composed.