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

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

Inevitably, tribunals have actually followed a number of these cases. During these, we’ve heard horrifying information of females treated abominably by companies in thrall to campaigners who prompted and imposed the illegal adoption of self-ID policies when it pertained to single-sex areas.

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 changing spaces to domestic violence havens.

Equally inevitably, those ladies capable of fighting back have been winning legal actions.

But even a rock solid case does not make it easy to strike back. Good legal representatives are pricey and the procedure is draining, both physically and emotionally.

For each lady who has actually triumphed in court, there are a lot more for whom launching a legal case appeared difficult.

The facility by the novelist and philanthropist JK Rowling of a fund to support ladies’s legal security of their rights instantly eliminates any monetary barriers to action for those with feasible cases.

Author JK Rowling has actually established a fund to support ladies’s legal protection 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 instead of documentation, a number of organisations – in both the public and economic sectors – have released statements announcing their decisions to “think about” the ramifications for their policies.

This extensive and reckless complacency stands to cost business – and taxpayer-funded bodies – dear. The realities are basic. If a service is provided on a single sex basis that suggests biological sex, not individual identity.

The law is the law and no more factor to consider is needed in order for employers to satisfy their commitments under it.

A number of past legal actions after females were unjustly dismissed or bullied out of jobs for refusing to concur with the mantra “trans ladies are females” were possible thanks to the assistance of online crowd-funding campaigns. Ms Rowling frequently promoted – and donated to – such fundraisers.

Now, she’s a one-woman crowd-funder, prepared to back the cases of every woman wronged at work for speaking the truth about sex.

The JK Rowling Women’s Fund will transform the battlefield when it pertains to ladies 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 cost implies nothing to the insurance companies underwriting companies’ costs. For them, it’s everything about the bottom line and the possibility that every female with a case now has access to the best lawyers in the company will, I suspect, motivate numerous to advise settlement rather than the humiliation, and inevitable expense, of more doomed defences.

If one needed evidence that women’s rights require the fiercest security, it can be found in the reaction to the launch of Ms Rowling’s fund.

With delicious pathos, one activist lawyer 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 movement”.

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

Other reactions were, predictably, more violent in tone.

The ongoing tribunal including nurse Sandie Peggie, declaring discrimination and harassment versus NHS Fife and trans-identifying doctor Beth Upton, brought the problem of the way so called “gender critical” females had been treated at work to large attention. This is a case that “cut through” with the general public and forced some politicians to resolve a concern they chose to avoid.

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

If they ‘d known 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 judgment 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 reality, others stay stubbornly dedicated to defiance of the law.

Naturally, the Scottish Greens – a terrific Wodehousian satire of a revolutionary cell – stay committed to using single-sex areas by anyone who feels they belong to that sex.

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

It should not have actually been required for JK Rowling to guarantee to finance the legal costs of females discriminated against for their views on sex and gender. Nobody needs to ever have lost a task, a promo, or a contract on the basis of their view that sex is immutable and crucial.

Nor needs to the novelist have actually felt it required to establish, in 2022, Beira’s Place, a women-only assistance service for victims of sexual violence in the Lothian location.

Ms Rowling’s choices to money Beira’s Place and to finance the legal costs of ladies discriminated against for thinking 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 politicians.

I know that recognition is the last thing on the writer’s mind but isn’t it downright weird that, when he talks of the achievements of effective Scots, First Minister John Swinney never ever mentions the assistance Beira’s Place has provided to numerous ladies?

Money is not the only thing ladies taking action to defend their rights need. Ask anybody who has actually been through the tribunal procedure and they’ll tell you that the psychological support of friends and allies is vital.

This comfort will not be in brief supply for those women 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 demands of trans activists, and contacts us to action and assistance do not go unheeded.

Let the country’s human resources departments brace themselves. A most amazing plot twist has actually simply been written.