For many years, now, ladies have actually been losing tasks after daring to express the view that biology is real and important.
Companies and public bodies, caught by the needs of extremist trans activists, have exacted terrible 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've heard scary details of females treated abominably by employers in thrall to who advised and implemented the illegal adoption of self-ID policies when it pertained to single-sex areas.
We've heard of ladies bullied and shunned for questioning the right of those born male to self-identify into women's areas, from altering rooms to domestic violence havens.
Equally inevitably, those women efficient in resisting have actually been winning legal actions.
But even a rock strong case does not make it simple to retaliate. Good legal representatives are costly and the procedure is draining pipes, both physically and emotionally.
For each female who has thrived in court, there are much more for whom launching a legal case appeared impossible.
The facility by the novelist and philanthropist JK Rowling of a fund to support females's legal defense of their rights instantly eliminates any financial barriers to action for those with feasible cases.
Author JK Rowling has developed a fund to support women's legal defense of their rights
The intervention of Ms Rowling should, today, be concentrating minds in personnels departments across the country.
Since the Supreme Court ruled, last month, that sex, in law, referred biology rather than paperwork, a number of organisations - in both the public and economic sectors - have released declarations announcing their choices to "think about" the implications for their policies.
This widespread and negligent 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 indicates biological sex, not personal identity.
The law is the law and no more factor to consider is needed in order for employers to satisfy their commitments under it.
A variety of past legal actions after females were unfairly dismissed or bullied out of tasks for declining to concur with the mantra "trans ladies are ladies" were possible thanks to the assistance of online crowd-funding projects. Ms Rowling regularly promoted - and donated to - such charity events.
Now, she's a one-woman crowd-funder, ready to back the cases of every lady mistreated at work for speaking the truth about sex.
The JK Rowling Women's Fund will transform the battleground when it pertains to females victimized for their legitimate, reality-based views.
At the heart of commercial tribunals there might be susceptible individuals betting high stakes however the human cost means absolutely nothing to the insurance providers underwriting employers' expenses. For them, it's everything about the bottom line and the prospect that every female with a case now has access to the finest attorneys in business will, I suspect, motivate numerous to urge settlement rather than the embarrassment, and inevitable expense, of more doomed defences.
If one required proof that females's rights require the fiercest protection, it can be found 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 explained as the "anti feminist biology is destiny motion".
Ms Rowling has never ever remained in the shadows when it pertains to her views on women's rights, has she?
Other reactions were, predictably, more violent in tone.
The continuous tribunal involving nurse Sandie Peggie, declaring discrimination and harassment versus NHS Fife and trans-identifying physician Beth Upton, brought the problem of the way so called "gender important" females had actually been dealt with at work to wide attention. This is a case that "cut through" with the 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 support for Ms Peggie and stated their belief in the significance of biological sex.
If they 'd known what they understand now, they added, they would not have enacted favour of the SNP's ultimately doomed plan to permit anybody to self-identify into the legally-recognised sex of their choosing.
But while the Peggie case and the subsequent ruling on the legal meaning of sex by the Supreme Court might have required a humiliating U-turn by the Labour leadership on the matter of biological truth, others stay stubbornly devoted to defiance of the law.
Naturally, the Scottish Greens - a terrific Wodehousian satire of a revolutionary cell - stay committed to making use of single-sex areas 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 nationwide 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 ensure to underwrite the legal costs of women victimized for their views on sex and gender. Nobody must ever have actually lost a task, a promo, or an agreement on the basis of their view that sex is immutable and important.
Nor should the author have actually 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 underwrite the legal expenses of women 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 understand that acknowledgment is the last thing on the writer's mind however isn't it downright weird that, when he broaches the accomplishments of effective Scots, First Minister John Swinney never mentions the support Beira's Place has offered to hundreds of females?
Money is not the only thing women doing something about it to protect their rights require. Ask anyone who has actually been through the tribunal process and they'll inform you that the emotional support of buddies and allies is important.
This comfort will not be in short supply for those women who get backing for their cases from the JK Rowling Women's Fund. The author becomes part of a worldwide network of advocates, fighting to protect ladies's rights versus 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 exceptional plot twist has simply been composed.
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