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For several years, now, females have been losing tasks after daring to express the view that biology is real and essential.
Companies and public bodies, recorded by the demands of extremist trans activists, have actually exacted harsh punishments on those expressing perfectly mainstream - and legal - views on sex and gender.
Inevitably, tribunals have followed a number of these cases. During these, we've heard terrible details of ladies dealt with abominably by employers in thrall to campaigners who prompted and enforced the prohibited adoption of self-ID policies when it came to single-sex areas.
We've heard of females bullied and shunned for questioning the right of those born male to self-identify into ladies's areas, from changing rooms to domestic violence refuges.
Equally undoubtedly, those women efficient in resisting have actually been winning legal actions.
But even a rock solid case does not make it simple to strike back. Good attorneys are pricey and the process is draining pipes, both physically and emotionally.
For each lady who has actually thrived in court, there are much more for whom introducing a legal case appeared impossible.
The facility by the author and philanthropist JK Rowling of a fund to support women's legal protection of their rights immediately eliminates any financial barriers to action for those with practical 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 country.
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 public and private sectors - have actually released declarations announcing their choices to "consider" the ramifications for their policies.
This prevalent and careless complacency stands to cost companies - and taxpayer-funded bodies - dear. The realities are easy. If a service is offered on a single sex basis that means biological sex, not personal identity.
The law is the law and no more factor to consider is required in order for employers to meet their obligations under it.
A variety of previous legal actions after females were unjustly dismissed or bullied out of tasks for refusing to concur with the mantra "trans females are women" were possible thanks to the support of online crowd-funding projects. Ms Rowling frequently promoted - and donated to - such charity events.
Now, she's a one-woman crowd-funder, prepared to back the cases of every woman mistreated at work for speaking the truth about sex.
The JK Rowling Women's Fund will change the battlefield when it concerns females victimized for their legitimate, reality-based views.
At the heart of commercial tribunals there might be susceptible people betting high stakes however the human cost means nothing to the insurance providers financing companies' costs. 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 lawyers in business will, I suspect, encourage numerous to advise settlement rather than the embarrassment, and unavoidable expense, of more doomed defences.
If one needed evidence that ladies's rights are in need of the fiercest security, it was available in the action to the launch of Ms Rowling's fund.
With scrumptious pathos, one activist attorney stated online that the Harry Potter creator had "emerged from the shadows" as the funder of what he explained as the "anti feminist biology is destiny movement".
Ms Rowling has never remained in the shadows when it concerns her views on females's rights, has she?
Other actions were, predictably, more violent in tone.
The ongoing tribunal including nurse Sandie Peggie, declaring discrimination and harassment versus NHS Fife and trans-identifying doctor Beth Upton, brought the issue of the way so called "gender vital" females had actually been dealt with at work to broad attention. This is a case that "cut through" with the public and required some political leaders to attend to an issue they preferred to avoid.
Scottish Labour's leader Anas Sarwar and his deputy, Jackie Baillie, announced their support for Ms Peggie and declared their belief in the value of biological sex.
If they 'd understood what they know now, they added, they would not have enacted favour of the SNP's ultimately doomed strategy to permit 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 forced a humiliating U-turn by the Labour management on the matter of biological reality, others remain stubbornly committed to of the law.
Naturally, the Scottish Greens - a fantastic Wodehousian satire of an innovative cell - remain dedicated to the 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 female 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 required for JK Rowling to ensure to underwrite the legal costs 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 important.
Nor should the author have actually felt it required to establish, in 2022, Beira's Place, a women-only assistance service for victims of sexual violence in the Lothian location.
Ms Rowling's choices to money Beira's Place and to underwrite the legal costs of ladies discriminated versus 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 political leaders.
I know that recognition is the last thing on the author's mind however isn't it downright unusual that, when he talks of the achievements of successful Scots, First Minister John Swinney never mentions the support Beira's Place has offered to hundreds of women?
Money is not the only thing females taking action to safeguard their rights need. Ask anyone who has been through the tribunal procedure and they'll tell you that the psychological assistance of buddies and allies is necessary.
This convenience will not be in short supply for those women who receive backing for their cases from the JK Rowling Women's Fund. The writer is part of a worldwide network of campaigners, fighting to secure females's rights versus the demands of trans activists, and contacts us to action and support do not go unheeded.
Let the country's personnels departments brace themselves. A most amazing plot twist has simply been composed.
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