Seattle Times columnist resigns after column on Sophie Cunningham is spiked
Seattle Times sports columnist Matt Calkins quit after 11 years, saying the paper refused to publish a column he wrote from the perspective of two female student athletes opposing competition against transgender athletes, including Sophie Cunningham. He describes a prolonged editorial review that culminated in the piece being spiked, and notes other instances where his columns were killed. Calkins frames the resignation as an assertion of free expression rather than censorship, despite fear about his future.
