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

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

Inevitably, tribunals have actually followed a number of these cases. During these, we've heard terrible information of females dealt with abominably by employers in thrall to advocates who prompted and implemented the prohibited adoption of self-ID policies when it concerned single-sex spaces.

We've heard of women bullied and avoided for questioning the right of those born male to self-identify into females's spaces, from changing rooms to domestic violence havens.

Equally inevitably, those females efficient in resisting have been winning legal actions.

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

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

The facility by the author and benefactor JK Rowling of a fund to support women's legal protection of their rights instantly gets rid of any financial barriers to action for those with viable cases.

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

The intervention of Ms Rowling should, today, be focusing minds in human resources departments across the nation.

Since the Supreme Court ruled, last month, that sex, in law, was a matter of biology instead of documentation, a variety of organisations - in both the general public and private sectors - have actually released statements announcing their decisions to "consider" the implications for their policies.

This extensive and stands to cost business - and taxpayer-funded bodies - dear. The truths are simple. If a service is offered on a single sex basis that suggests biological sex, not individuality.

The law is the law and no additional consideration is needed in order for companies to meet their commitments under it.

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

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

The JK Rowling Women's Fund will transform the battlefield when it comes to females victimized for their legitimate, reality-based views.

At the heart of commercial tribunals there might be susceptible individuals playing for high stakes but the human expense indicates nothing to the insurers underwriting 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 very best attorneys in business will, I suspect, encourage many to advise settlement instead of the humiliation, and inevitable cost, of more doomed defences.

If one required evidence that females's rights need the fiercest defense, it can be found in the reaction to the launch of Ms Rowling's fund.

With scrumptious pathos, one activist legal representative 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 concerns her views on females's rights, has she?

Other responses were, naturally, more violent in tone.

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

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

If they 'd understood what they know now, they included, they would not have voted in favour of the SNP's ultimately doomed strategy to allow anyone to self-identify into the legally-recognised sex of their choosing.

But while the Peggie case and the subsequent judgment on the legal meaning of sex by the Supreme Court may have required a humiliating U-turn by the Labour leadership on the matter of biological truth, others remain stubbornly devoted to defiance of the law.

Naturally, the Scottish Greens - a terrific Wodehousian satire of an innovative cell - stay committed to making use of single-sex areas by anybody who feels they belong to that sex.

There have been current declarations of resistance from trade unions, too. Unison has allowed a trans lady 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 regional authorities and health boards - is another costly legal action in the making.

It ought to not have been essential for JK Rowling to ensure to finance the legal expenses of women discriminated versus for their views on sex and gender. Nobody should ever have actually lost a task, 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 needed to establish, in 2022, Beira's Place, a women-only support service for victims of sexual violence in the Lothian location.

Ms Rowling's choices to money Beira's Place and to finance the legal expenses 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 political leaders.

I know that recognition is the last thing on the author's mind however isn't it downright strange that, when he broaches the achievements of effective Scots, First Minister John Swinney never discusses the assistance Beira's Place has provided to hundreds of females?

Money is not the only thing ladies acting to defend their rights require. Ask anyone who has actually been through the tribunal process and they'll inform you that the psychological assistance of friends and allies is vital.

This convenience will not remain in brief supply for those women who receive backing for their cases from the JK Rowling Women's Fund. The writer is part of a global network of campaigners, battling to secure women's rights against the demands of trans activists, and contacts us to action and assistance do not go unheeded.

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