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

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

Inevitably, tribunals have followed a variety of these cases. During these, we have actually heard terrible details of females dealt with abominably by employers in thrall to campaigners who urged and imposed the unlawful adoption of self-ID policies when it came to single-sex areas.

We have actually heard of females bullied and shunned for questioning the right of those born male to self-identify into women's spaces, from changing spaces to domestic violence sanctuaries.

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

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

For every single woman who has thrived in court, there are a lot more for whom introducing a legal case appeared impossible.

The facility by the novelist and philanthropist JK Rowling of a fund to support ladies's legal protection of their rights instantly gets rid of any financial barriers to action for those with feasible cases.

Author JK Rowling has actually developed a fund to support ladies's legal security of their rights

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

Since the Supreme Court ruled, last month, that sex, in law, referred biology instead of documents, a number of organisations - in both the public and personal sectors - have actually issued statements revealing their choices to "think about" the ramifications for their policies.

This widespread and negligent complacency stands to cost business - and taxpayer-funded bodies - dear. The truths are easy. If a service is offered on a single sex basis that suggests biological sex, not personal identity.

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

A number of past legal actions after ladies were unjustly dismissed or bullied out of tasks for declining to concur with the mantra "trans ladies 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 reality about sex.

The JK Rowling Women's Fund will change the battlefield when it comes to ladies discriminated against for their legitimate, views.

At the heart of industrial tribunals there might be vulnerable individuals playing for high stakes however the human cost means absolutely nothing to the insurance companies financing employers' costs. For them, it's everything about the bottom line and the possibility that every woman with a case now has access to the very best legal representatives in the business will, I think, encourage lots of to urge settlement rather than the embarrassment, and inevitable cost, of more doomed defences.

If one needed evidence that females's rights are in need of the fiercest protection, it was available in the response to the launch of Ms Rowling's fund.

With delicious pathos, one activist attorney declared online that the Harry Potter developer had "emerged from the shadows" as the funder of what he described as the "anti feminist biology is destiny movement".

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

Other responses were, predictably, more violent in tone.

The ongoing tribunal involving nurse Sandie Peggie, claiming discrimination and harassment against NHS Fife and trans-identifying medical professional Beth Upton, brought the concern of the method so called "gender critical" women had actually been treated at work to wide attention. This is a case that "cut through" with the general public and required some politicians to attend to an issue they chose to prevent.

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

If they 'd understood what they know now, they added, they would not have voted in favour of the SNP's eventually 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 may have required 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 great Wodehousian satire of an advanced cell - remain committed to making use of single-sex areas by anybody who feels they belong to that sex.

There have been recent declarations of resistance from trade unions, too. Unison has allowed a trans female 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 local authorities and health boards - is another expensive legal action in the making.

It should not have actually been necessary for JK Rowling to ensure to finance the legal expenses of females victimized for their views on sex and gender. Nobody ought to ever have lost a job, a promo, or a contract on the basis of their view that sex is immutable and essential.

Nor must the author have felt it necessary to develop, in 2022, Beira's Place, a women-only assistance 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 females victimized 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 political leaders.

I know that recognition is the last thing on the writer's mind however isn't it downright weird that, when he talks of the accomplishments of successful Scots, First Minister John Swinney never points out the support Beira's Place has provided to numerous women?

Money is not the only thing females doing something about it to defend their rights require. Ask anybody who has actually been through the tribunal procedure and they'll tell you that the emotional assistance of good friends and allies is important.

This comfort will not remain in brief supply for those females who get backing for their cases from the JK Rowling Women's Fund. The author belongs to a worldwide network of advocates, combating to protect females's rights versus 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 impressive plot twist has simply been composed.