Solidarity and massive respect for Kevin Price, who resigned from @CamCitCo over a motion repeating the words:
"Trans women are women. Trans men are men. Non-binary individuals are non-binary.”
In his words: (1/6)
"The inclusion of the first three sentences of this motion will send a chill down the spines of the many women who believe there is a conflict of rights and who want to be able to discuss those in a calm and evidenced-based way."
(2/6)
We fully agree, as many women do, and commend his bravery in standing up to anti-scientific, anti-feminist, nonsensical dogmatism in a climate that demands silence and conformity.
(3/6)
But we lament that such bravery is not in greater supply within a party that professes to fight against material inequality. We lament that there are some within Labour who actively contribute to this climate.
(4/6)
We hope his bravery stands as an example for others, within Lab & the broader left, who may face situations like Kevin in future. Principles only count for something if you stand for them when it is hard. Bravery requires having something to lose; all else is hypothetical.
(5/6)
A significant portion of the CamRadFems are Labour members. It is our party too. We are here and we are not going away. As students at the university, we stand alongside Mr Price as part of the Cambridge community. And as women we are grateful for his allyship. (6/6)
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@ClareCollege must stand up against this absurd, bullying behaviour.
The description in this article of Kevin Price's tweets as "transphobic" is both ridiculous, and a precise encapsulation of what is so very wrong with the current student culture at Cambridge.
The mere recognition of a conflict between modern gender ideology and women's rights
is now politically unsayable for some young students. To the point that a man who has worked at the university for years is now thrown under the bus for daring to speak his conscience.
That there are students, most of whom have never worked a day in their lives, who are now trying to threaten the livelihood of a man who refused to toe their line politically, is truly disgusting.
But the fact that they have not been dismissed out of hand is beyond the pale.
A significant portion of our network –and 2/4 of our exec committee– are lesbian / bisexual Cambridge students. CUSU LGBT no longer even maintains the pretence of representing us. Incidentally, however, this Q's phrasing nicely illustrates the hypocrisy of ‘gender identity’. 1/8
Women are forced either to (a) profess to have some metaphysical “womanly identity” beyond simply factually being a woman, or (b) deny they are women at all, and thereby surrender their claim to have Student Rep socs serve their interests. 2/8
Because our members recognise we do not “identify” as women any more than we “identify” as having a certain hair or eye colour, ‘gender ideology’ proponents are forced to conclude we must not be women at all, no matter our view on the subject (or the objective reality of it). 3/8