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Editors Killed My Story on Trans Athletes. I Resigned.
Matt Calkins spent over a decade covering sports at ‘The Seattle Times.’ After his column defending sex-based categories was spiked, he stepped down, saying dissent was no longer welcome.
Matt Calkins spent 11 years as a sports columnist for The Seattle Times. Last week he resigned after the paper refused to publish a column with a pretty basic thesis: that supporting the separation of biological males and females doesn’t make you transphobic.
Calkins says the final column wasn’t a one-off, but the breaking point in a pattern of silencing…
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