The trans debate could cost this Cambridge porter his job

This is a story about a man called Kevin Price, who was until last week a councillor and who is, for now at least, employed as a porter at a Cambridge college.

The story illustrates two points. First, political conflict over trans rights and women’s rights is far from over, especially in the Labour Party. Second, people who say the wrong thing in this debate can put their livelihood at risk.

Mr Price last week resigned from Cambridge City Council. He had sat as a Labour councillor since 2010 and was once the council’s deputy leader.

He resigned rather than follow the Labour Group whip and vote for a motion that declared, among other things that:

‘Trans women are women. Trans men are men. Non-binary individuals are non-binary.’

There’s something both distasteful and revealing about students threatening the livelihood of a man employed to serve them because he refuses to share their opinions

Those are, of course, the holy words of trans orthodoxy, a catechism that cannot be questioned despite the countless questions it raises.