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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 essential.

Companies and public bodies, captured by the demands of extremist trans activists, have actually exacted vicious penalties on those revealing completely 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 information of ladies treated abominably by companies in thrall to advocates who prompted and enforced the prohibited adoption of self-ID policies when it came to single-sex spaces.

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

Equally undoubtedly, those ladies efficient in resisting have actually been winning legal actions.

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

For every single woman who has actually thrived in court, there are much more for whom launching a legal case seemed impossible.

The establishment by the novelist and benefactor JK Rowling of a fund to support females's legal security of their rights instantly eliminates any financial barriers to action for those with feasible cases.

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

The intervention of Ms Rowling should, today, be focusing minds in personnels departments across the country.

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

This prevalent and careless complacency stands to cost companies - and taxpayer-funded bodies - dear. The realities are simple. If a service is used on a single sex basis that means biological sex, not individual identity.

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

A number of previous legal actions after females were unjustly dismissed or bullied out of jobs for refusing to concur with the mantra "trans women are women" were possible thanks to the support of online crowd-funding campaigns. Ms Rowling regularly promoted - and donated to - such fundraisers.

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

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

At the heart of industrial tribunals there may be vulnerable individuals betting high stakes however the human cost indicates absolutely nothing to the insurance providers financing companies' 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 service will, I presume, motivate lots of to prompt 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 defense, it came in the response to the launch of Ms Rowling's fund.

With tasty pathos, one activist lawyer declared 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 movement".

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

Other actions were, predictably, more violent in tone.

The ongoing tribunal involving nurse Sandie Peggie, declaring discrimination and harassment against NHS Fife and trans-identifying doctor Beth Upton, brought the concern of the way so called "gender vital" females had actually been treated at work to large attention. This is a case that "cut through" with the public and forced some political leaders to address an issue they preferred to prevent.

Scottish Labour's leader Anas Sarwar and his deputy, Jackie Baillie, announced their support 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 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 judgment on the legal meaning of sex by the Supreme Court may have forced an embarrassing U-turn by the on the matter of biological reality, others stay stubbornly devoted to defiance of the law.

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

There have been recent 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 pricey legal action in the making.

It must not have actually been necessary for JK Rowling to guarantee to finance the legal expenses of women discriminated versus for their views on sex and gender. Nobody must ever have lost a job, a promotion, or an agreement on the basis of their view that sex is immutable and important.

Nor should the author have actually felt it necessary to develop, in 2022, Beira's Place, a women-only support service for victims of sexual violence in the Lothian area.

Ms Rowling's choices to fund Beira's Place and to finance the legal expenses 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 acknowledgment is the last thing on the author's mind but isn't it downright odd that, when he talks of the accomplishments of successful Scots, First Minister John Swinney never ever discusses the assistance Beira's Place has provided to hundreds of ladies?

Money is not the only thing females taking action to defend their rights require. Ask anyone who has been through the tribunal process and they'll inform you that the psychological support of pals and allies is important.

This convenience will not remain in short supply for those females who get support for their cases from the JK Rowling Women's Fund. The writer becomes part of a global network of campaigners, battling to secure females's rights versus the needs of trans activists, and contacts us to action and assistance do not go unheeded.

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