EUAN McCOLM: in Praise Of JK Rowling

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

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 actually followed a variety of these cases. During these, we have actually heard horrifying information of women dealt with abominably by employers in thrall to advocates who advised and implemented the prohibited adoption of self-ID policies when it concerned single-sex spaces.

We've become aware of ladies bullied and shunned for questioning the right of those born male to self-identify into women's spaces, from altering rooms to domestic violence sanctuaries.

Equally inevitably, those ladies capable of battling back have been winning legal actions.

But even a rock strong case does not make it easy to strike back. Good attorneys are pricey and the procedure is draining pipes, both physically and mentally.

For every single female who has triumphed in court, there are a lot more for whom introducing a legal case appeared impossible.

The establishment by the author and philanthropist JK Rowling of a fund to support ladies's legal defense of their rights immediately removes any financial barriers to action for those with viable 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 human resources departments across the country.

Since the Supreme Court ruled, last month, that sex, in law, was a matter of biology rather than documents, a variety of organisations - in both the general public and personal sectors - have issued statements revealing their choices to "consider" the implications for their policies.

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

The law is the law and no additional factor to consider is required in order for companies to fulfill their obligations under it.

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

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

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

At the heart of commercial tribunals there might be vulnerable individuals betting high stakes but the human cost suggests nothing to the insurers underwriting employers' costs. For them, it's all about the bottom line and the prospect that every female with a case now has access to the best legal representatives in the service will, I believe, encourage lots of to advise settlement instead of the embarrassment, and inevitable cost, of more doomed defences.

If one needed evidence that women's rights are in requirement of the fiercest protection, it can be found in the response to the launch of Ms Rowling's fund.

With tasty 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 fate motion".

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

Other actions were, predictably, more violent in tone.

The ongoing tribunal involving nurse Sandie Peggie, claiming discrimination and harassment against NHS Fife and trans-identifying doctor Beth Upton, brought the issue of the method so called "gender critical" ladies had actually been treated at work to large attention. This is a case that "cut through" with the public and forced some politicians to address a problem they preferred to prevent.

Scottish Labour's leader Anas Sarwar and his deputy, Jackie Baillie, revealed their assistance for Ms Peggie and declared their belief in the value of biological sex.

If they 'd understood 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 management on the matter of biological truth, others stay stubbornly dedicated to defiance of the law.