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Seattle Times sports columnist resigns over spiked trans athlete story

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Seattle Times sports columnist resigns over spiked trans athlete story

A sports columnist with The Seattle Times announced Thursday he has resigned after the outlet declined to run his piece on transgender athletes in women's sports.

Calkins wrote on X: "After 11 years as a sports columnist at the Seattle Times, I have decided to resign. It was entirely my choice, and it was not an easy one. The impetus was the Times declining to run a column I wrote from the perspective of two female student athletes who were opposed to competing against biological males"

"It was one of several pieces of mine that had been spiked, and I no longer felt like I could properly do my job as a columnist"

"So that was the thesis of my column … that supporting the separation of biological females and males doesn't automatically make you transphobic, so let's stop throwing those labels around"

When asked about Calkins's resignation, the Times told The Hill that it does "not comment on personnel matters."