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

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

Inevitably, tribunals have actually followed a number of these cases. During these, we've heard horrifying details of women treated abominably by companies in thrall to advocates who advised and implemented the unlawful adoption of self-ID policies when it pertained to single-sex areas.

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

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

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

For every single lady who has actually triumphed in court, there are numerous more for whom releasing a legal case appeared impossible.

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

Author JK has established a fund to support females's legal defense of their rights

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

Since the Supreme Court ruled, last month, that sex, in law, referred biology instead of paperwork, a number of organisations - in both the public and economic sectors - have actually provided statements announcing their decisions to "consider" the ramifications for their policies.

This widespread and reckless complacency stands to cost business - and taxpayer-funded bodies - dear. The realities are basic. If a service is used on a single sex basis that means biological sex, not individuality.

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

A number of past legal actions after females were unfairly dismissed or bullied out of jobs for declining to agree with the mantra "trans females are ladies" were possible thanks to the support of online crowd-funding projects. Ms Rowling frequently promoted - and donated to - such fundraising events.

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

The JK Rowling Women's Fund will change the battlefield when it comes to women discriminated against for their genuine, reality-based views.

At the heart of commercial tribunals there might be vulnerable people betting high stakes however the human expense implies absolutely nothing to the insurers underwriting companies' expenses. For them, it's all about the bottom line and the possibility that every lady with a case now has access to the very best lawyers in the organization will, I think, encourage numerous to urge settlement instead of the embarrassment, and unavoidable expense, of more doomed defences.

If one needed evidence that women's rights require the fiercest security, it was available in the reaction to the launch of Ms Rowling's fund.

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

Other actions were, naturally, more violent in tone.

The continuous tribunal including nurse Sandie Peggie, claiming discrimination and harassment versus NHS Fife and trans-identifying physician Beth Upton, brought the concern of the method so called "gender vital" females had been treated at work to broad attention. This is a case that "cut through" with the public and forced some political leaders to attend to a problem they preferred to prevent.

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

If they 'd understood what they know now, they added, they would not have actually voted in favour of the SNP's eventually doomed strategy to permit anybody 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 an embarrassing U-turn by the Labour management on the matter of biological truth, others remain stubbornly devoted to defiance of the law.

Naturally, the Scottish Greens - an excellent Wodehousian satire of an innovative cell - remain committed to making use of single-sex areas by anybody who feels they come from that sex.

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

It must not have been needed for JK Rowling to guarantee to underwrite the legal expenses of women victimized for their views on sex and gender. Nobody should ever have actually lost a job, a promo, or an agreement on the basis of their view that sex is immutable and essential.

Nor should the novelist have felt it necessary to establish, 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 expenses of ladies 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 know that acknowledgment is the last thing on the author's mind but isn't it downright weird that, when he talks of the achievements of effective Scots, First Minister John Swinney never discusses the support Beira's Place has offered to numerous ladies?

Money is not the only thing females taking action to protect their rights require. Ask anybody who has been through the tribunal process and they'll tell you that the emotional support of good friends and allies is important.

This comfort will not remain in short supply for those women who get support for their cases from the JK Rowling Women's Fund. The author belongs to a worldwide network of advocates, combating to protect women's rights against the demands 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.