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

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

Inevitably, tribunals have followed a variety of these cases. During these, we have actually heard horrifying information of ladies treated abominably by companies in thrall to advocates who prompted and enforced the prohibited adoption of self-ID policies when it concerned single-sex areas.

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

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

But even a rock solid case does not make it simple to strike back. Good attorneys are costly and the process is draining, both physically and emotionally.

For every single lady who has actually thrived in court, there are numerous more for whom launching a legal case seemed impossible.

The establishment by the author and benefactor JK Rowling of a fund to support ladies's legal protection of their rights instantly removes any monetary barriers to action for those with viable cases.

Author JK Rowling has actually 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 across the nation.

Since the Supreme Court ruled, last month, that sex, in law, referred biology rather than documents, a variety of organisations - in both the general public and personal sectors - have actually issued declarations revealing their decisions to "think about" the ramifications for their policies.

This extensive and reckless complacency stands to cost companies - and taxpayer-funded bodies - dear. The realities are easy. If a service is used on a single sex basis that means biological sex, not individual identity.

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

A variety of past legal actions after females were unjustly dismissed or bullied out of tasks for declining to concur with the mantra "trans ladies are women" were possible thanks to the assistance of online crowd-funding campaigns. Ms Rowling frequently promoted - and donated to - such charity events.

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

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

At the heart of industrial tribunals there may be vulnerable for high stakes however the human cost indicates absolutely nothing to the insurance providers financing employers' expenses. For them, it's everything about the bottom line and the possibility that every lady with a case now has access to the very best legal representatives in business will, I think, encourage numerous to urge settlement instead of the humiliation, and unavoidable cost, of more doomed defences.

If one required evidence that women's rights require the fiercest security, it came in the response to the launch of Ms Rowling's fund.

With delicious pathos, one activist attorney stated 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 been in the shadows when it concerns her views on ladies's rights, has she?

Other responses were, predictably, more violent in tone.

The continuous tribunal involving nurse Sandie Peggie, claiming discrimination and harassment versus NHS Fife and trans-identifying doctor Beth Upton, brought the issue of the method so called "gender important" females had actually been treated at work to large attention. This is a case that "cut through" with the public and forced some politicians to deal with 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 value of biological sex.

If they 'd known what they know now, they included, they would not have actually voted in favour of the SNP's eventually doomed plan 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 significance of sex by the Supreme Court may have forced a humiliating U-turn by the Labour management on the matter of biological truth, others stay stubbornly dedicated to defiance of the law.

Naturally, the Scottish Greens - a great Wodehousian satire of a revolutionary cell - remain dedicated to the use of single-sex areas by anyone who feels they come from that sex.

There have been current statements of resistance from trade unions, too. Unison has permitted a trans woman 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 costly legal action in the making.

It must not have been needed for JK Rowling to ensure to finance the legal expenses of ladies discriminated versus for their views on sex and gender. Nobody needs to ever have lost a job, a promotion, or a contract on the basis of their view that sex is immutable and crucial.

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

Ms Rowling's decisions to fund Beira's Place and to underwrite the legal costs of women discriminated versus for believing 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 know that acknowledgment is the last thing on the writer's mind however isn't it downright strange that, when he broaches the achievements of effective Scots, First Minister John Swinney never discusses the assistance Beira's Place has offered to numerous women?

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

This comfort will not remain in brief supply for those women who get support for their cases from the JK Rowling Women's Fund. The writer becomes part of a global network of campaigners, fighting to secure ladies's rights against the needs of trans activists, and calls to action and assistance do not go unheeded.

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