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

Companies and public bodies, recorded by the needs of extremist trans activists, have actually exacted vicious penalties on those revealing completely mainstream - and legal - views on sex and gender.

Inevitably, tribunals have followed a number of these cases. During these, we have actually heard horrifying details of women dealt with abominably by companies in thrall to campaigners who urged and enforced the illegal adoption of self-ID policies when it came to single-sex areas.

We have actually heard of women bullied and shunned for questioning the right of those born male to self-identify into ladies's areas, from altering rooms 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 strike back. Good legal representatives are costly and the process is draining, both physically and mentally.

For every female who has thrived in court, there are a lot more for whom launching a legal case seemed difficult.

The establishment by the author and philanthropist JK Rowling of a fund to support women's legal protection of their rights right away removes any financial barriers to action for those with feasible cases.

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

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

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 released statements announcing their decisions to "think about" the implications for their policies.

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

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

A variety of previous legal actions after females were unfairly dismissed or bullied out of jobs for declining to agree with the mantra "trans females are women" were possible thanks to the assistance of online crowd-funding campaigns. Ms Rowling often 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 reality about sex.

The JK Rowling Women's Fund will change the battlefield when it concerns women discriminated versus for their legitimate, reality-based views.

At the heart of industrial tribunals there may be susceptible individuals betting high stakes but the human cost suggests nothing to the insurance companies underwriting companies' costs. For them, it's everything about the bottom line and the possibility that every lady with a case now has access to the finest lawyers in the company will, I suspect, motivate many to urge settlement instead of the humiliation, and inescapable cost, of more doomed defences.

If one needed evidence that females's rights need the fiercest defense, it came in the action to the launch of Ms Rowling's fund.

With delicious pathos, one activist legal representative 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 destiny movement".

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

Other reactions were, naturally, more violent in tone.

The ongoing tribunal including 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 important" females had been treated at work to broad attention. This is a case that "cut through" with the general public and forced some politicians to resolve a problem 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 known what they know now, they included, they would not have actually enacted 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 ruling on the legal significance of sex by the Supreme Court might have forced an embarrassing U-turn by the Labour management on the matter of biological truth, others remain stubbornly committed to defiance of the law.

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

There have been current statements of resistance from trade unions, too. Unison has actually 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 needs to not have actually been required for JK Rowling to guarantee to finance the legal expenses of females victimized for their views on sex and gender. Nobody must ever have actually lost a job, a promo, or an agreement on the basis of their view that sex is immutable and crucial.

Nor needs to the novelist have actually felt it needed to develop, in 2022, Beira's Place, a women-only assistance service for victims of sexual violence in the Lothian area.

Ms Rowling's decisions to money Beira's Place and to underwrite the legal costs of ladies 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 achievements of effective Scots, First Minister John Swinney never ever discusses the assistance Beira's Place has offered to numerous ladies?

Money is not the only thing women acting to defend their rights need. Ask anybody who has been through the tribunal procedure and they'll inform you that the psychological assistance of pals and allies is vital.

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 is part of an international network of advocates, fighting to secure women's rights versus the demands of trans activists, and calls to action and assistance do not go unheeded.

Let the country's human resources departments brace themselves. A most twist has simply been written.