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For many years, now, women have actually been losing tasks after bold to express the view that biology is genuine and crucial.

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

Inevitably, tribunals have actually followed a number of these cases. During these, we have actually heard terrible details of females treated abominably by companies in thrall to advocates who urged and enforced the prohibited adoption of self-ID policies when it came to single-sex spaces.

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

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

But even a rock solid case does not make it simple to retaliate. Good attorneys are pricey and the procedure is draining pipes, both physically and mentally.

For every single woman who has actually triumphed in court, there are much more for whom introducing a legal case seemed difficult.

The establishment by the novelist and philanthropist JK Rowling of a fund to support women's legal security of their rights immediately gets rid of any financial barriers to action for those with feasible cases.

Author JK Rowling has actually established a fund to support females's legal protection of their rights

The intervention of Ms Rowling should, today, be concentrating minds in personnels departments throughout the nation.

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

This prevalent and careless complacency stands to cost business - and taxpayer-funded bodies - dear. The facts are easy. If a service is offered on a single sex basis that implies biological sex, not personal identity.

The law is the law and no more factor to consider is required in order for to fulfill their obligations under it.

A variety of previous legal actions after ladies were unfairly dismissed or bullied out of tasks for refusing to concur with the mantra "trans ladies are females" were possible thanks to the support of online crowd-funding campaigns. Ms Rowling frequently promoted - and contributed to - such charity events.

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

The JK Rowling Women's Fund will transform the battlefield when it concerns females discriminated against for their genuine, reality-based views.

At the heart of commercial tribunals there may be vulnerable people playing for high stakes but the human expense suggests absolutely nothing to the insurers financing employers' expenses. For them, it's everything about the bottom line and the prospect that every woman with a case now has access to the best legal representatives in the organization will, I presume, encourage numerous to advise settlement rather than the humiliation, and unavoidable expense, of more doomed defences.

If one required proof that ladies's rights need the fiercest protection, it came in the action 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 referred to as the "anti feminist biology is fate motion".

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

Other reactions were, predictably, more violent in tone.

The continuous tribunal including nurse Sandie Peggie, declaring discrimination and harassment versus NHS Fife and trans-identifying medical professional Beth Upton, brought the concern of the way so called "gender crucial" ladies had actually been dealt with at work to broad attention. This is a case that "cut through" with the public and required some politicians to deal with an issue they chose to avoid.

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 known what they know now, they included, they would not have enacted favour of the SNP's ultimately doomed strategy to allow anybody 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 required a humiliating U-turn by the Labour management on the matter of biological truth, others stay stubbornly committed to defiance of the law.

Naturally, the Scottish Greens - a fantastic Wodehousian satire of an advanced cell - remain dedicated to using single-sex areas by anybody who feels they come from that sex.

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

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

Nor must the author have 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 underwrite the legal expenses of ladies discriminated versus 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 political leaders.

I know that acknowledgment is the last thing on the writer's mind however isn't it downright odd that, when he broaches the accomplishments of successful Scots, First Minister John Swinney never ever discusses the assistance Beira's Place has offered to hundreds of females?

Money is not the only thing females doing something about it to protect their rights need. Ask anyone who has actually been through the tribunal process and they'll inform you that the psychological assistance of good friends and allies is necessary.

This comfort will not be in brief supply for those women who get backing for their cases from the JK Rowling Women's Fund. The author is part of a global network of advocates, battling to protect females's rights against the demands of trans activists, and contacts us to action and assistance do not go unheeded.

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