diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 009fa195..2bce54ef 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ authors = [
     "Isaiah Inuwa <isaiah.inuwa@gmail.com>",
     "Anthony Ramine <n.oxyde@gmail.com>",
 ]
-version = "0.1.2"
+version = "0.1.3"
 repository = "https://github.com/ruma/ruma-serde"
 edition = "2018"
 
diff --git a/src/lib.rs b/src/lib.rs
index b0369f6b..ae83bd69 100644
--- a/src/lib.rs
+++ b/src/lib.rs
@@ -23,6 +23,13 @@ pub fn default_true() -> bool {
     true
 }
 
+/// Simplfy dereferences the given bool.
+///
+/// Useful for `#[serde(skip_serializing_if = ...)]`
+pub fn is_true(b: &bool) -> bool {
+    *b
+}
+
 /// Serde deserialization decorator to map empty Strings to None,
 /// and forward non-empty Strings to the Deserialize implementation for T.
 /// Useful for the typical