For several years, now, women have been losing jobs after bold to express the view that biology is real and important.

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

Inevitably, tribunals have followed a number of these cases. During these, we've heard scary information of ladies treated abominably by companies in thrall to advocates who prompted and imposed the prohibited adoption of self-ID policies when it concerned single-sex areas.

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

Equally inevitably, those females capable of fighting back have actually been winning legal actions.

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

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

The establishment by the novelist and philanthropist 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 developed 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 across the nation.

Since the Supreme Court ruled, last month, that sex, in law, referred biology rather than documents, a number of organisations - in both the public and personal sectors - have actually provided declarations revealing their choices to "think about" the ramifications for their policies.

This prevalent and reckless complacency stands to cost business - and taxpayer-funded bodies - dear. The truths are easy. If a service is used on a single sex basis that indicates biological sex, not individual identity.

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

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

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

The JK Rowling Women's Fund will transform the battleground when it comes to women victimized for their genuine, reality-based views.

At the heart of commercial tribunals there may be susceptible individuals playing for high stakes however the human expense means nothing to the insurers financing employers' costs. For them, it's everything about the bottom line and the possibility that every female with a case now has access to the very best lawyers in the business will, I think, motivate lots of to advise settlement rather than the embarrassment, and inescapable expense, of more doomed defences.

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

With tasty pathos, one activist lawyer stated online that the Harry Potter creator had "emerged from the shadows" as the funder of what he described as the "anti feminist biology is fate motion".

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

Other actions were, predictably, more violent in tone.

The ongoing tribunal including nurse Sandie Peggie, declaring discrimination and harassment against NHS Fife and trans-identifying doctor Beth Upton, brought the concern of the method so called "gender crucial" women had been dealt with at work to large attention. This is a case that "cut through" with the public and required some politicians to attend to a problem they preferred to prevent.

Scottish Labour's leader Anas Sarwar and his deputy, Jackie Baillie, announced their assistance 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 voted in favour of the SNP's ultimately doomed plan to allow anybody to self-identify into the legally-recognised sex of their choosing.

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

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

There have been recent statements of resistance from trade unions, too. Unison has permitted 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 local authorities and health boards - is another expensive legal action in the making.

It should not have been necessary for JK Rowling to guarantee to underwrite the legal expenses of ladies discriminated versus for their views on sex and gender. Nobody ought to ever have lost a task, a promotion, or a contract on the basis of their view that sex is immutable and important.

Nor must the author have actually felt it essential 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 money Beira's Place and to finance the legal costs of females discriminated against for believing 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 politicians.

I know that recognition is the last thing on the writer's mind but isn't it downright strange that, when he broaches the achievements of successful Scots, First Minister John Swinney never ever discusses the support Beira's Place has provided to numerous ladies?

Money is not the only thing females taking action to defend their rights need. Ask anyone who has actually been through the tribunal process and they'll inform you that the emotional assistance of and allies is vital.

This comfort will not be in brief supply for those ladies who receive support for their cases from the JK Rowling Women's Fund. The writer becomes part of a global network of campaigners, combating to safeguard ladies's rights versus the needs of trans activists, and contacts us to action and assistance do not go unheeded.

Let the nation's human resources departments brace themselves. A most exceptional plot twist has actually just been written.