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For several years, now, ladies have been losing jobs after bold to express the view that biology is genuine and crucial.

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

Inevitably, tribunals have actually followed a number of these cases. During these, we have actually heard scary information of ladies treated abominably by companies in thrall to advocates who urged and implemented the unlawful adoption of self-ID policies when it came to single-sex areas.

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

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

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

For each female who has triumphed in court, there are many 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 immediately gets rid of any financial barriers to action for those with feasible cases.

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

The intervention of Ms Rowling should, right now, be focusing minds in human resources departments across the country.

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

This prevalent and reckless 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 additional factor to consider is needed in order for companies to satisfy their obligations under it.

A number of previous legal actions after women were unjustly dismissed or bullied out of jobs for declining to concur with the mantra "trans women are women" were possible thanks to the support of online crowd-funding projects. 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 woman wronged at work for speaking the fact about sex.

The JK Rowling Women's Fund will change the battlefield when it pertains to females victimized for their genuine, reality-based views.

At the heart of commercial tribunals there might be vulnerable people playing for high stakes but the human expense indicates absolutely nothing to the insurance providers underwriting companies' expenses. For them, it's all about the bottom line and the possibility that every woman with a case now has access to the very best attorneys in the service will, I think, encourage numerous to advise settlement rather than the humiliation, and unavoidable cost, of more doomed defences.

If one needed evidence that women's rights are in requirement of the fiercest defense, it came in the action to the launch of Ms Rowling's fund.

With tasty pathos, one activist lawyer stated online that the Harry Potter creator had "emerged from the shadows" as the funder of what he described as the "anti feminist biology is fate motion".

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

Other reactions were, predictably, more violent in tone.

The continuous tribunal involving nurse Sandie Peggie, claiming discrimination and harassment versus NHS Fife and trans-identifying physician Beth Upton, the issue of the way so called "gender vital" females had actually been treated at work to wide attention. This is a case that "cut through" with the general public and required some political leaders to resolve an issue they chose to avoid.

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

If they 'd understood what they know now, they included, they would not have actually enacted favour of the SNP's eventually doomed plan to enable 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 truth, others remain stubbornly dedicated to defiance of the law.

Naturally, the Scottish Greens - a terrific Wodehousian satire of a revolutionary cell - remain dedicated to making use of single-sex spaces by anybody who feels they come from that sex.

There have actually been current statements of resistance from trade unions, too. Unison has 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 expensive legal action in the making.

It ought to not have actually been required for JK Rowling to ensure to underwrite the legal expenses of ladies victimized for their views on sex and gender. Nobody needs to ever have actually lost a job, a promotion, or an agreement on the basis of their view that sex is immutable and essential.

Nor ought to the novelist have felt it essential to establish, in 2022, Beira's Place, a women-only assistance 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 females discriminated against 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 political leaders.

I know that acknowledgment is the last thing on the author's mind however isn't it downright weird 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 hundreds of ladies?

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

This comfort will not remain in brief supply for those females who receive backing for their cases from the JK Rowling Women's Fund. The writer belongs to an international network of campaigners, combating to protect women's rights versus the needs of trans activists, and calls to action and assistance do not go unheeded.

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