The controversy surrounding Sophie Cunningham and transgender athletes is heightening.
Of course, Sophie Cunningham meant no harm with her comments about how transgender athletes shouldn’t be in the WNBA, but it’s caused absolute carnage.
The story took a turn into media ethics when Seattle Times sports columnist Matt Calkins quit his 11-year job after editors spiked his column. Calkins had written about two female student-athletes who supported Cunningham’s stance, arguing that separating sports by biological sex isn’t inherently transphobic.
But worst of all was the excuse made by the Seattle Times, as Calkins took part in an interview with Fox.
He said: “All they said was that, ‘You didn’t tell us you were doing this in advance, uh, so we can’t run it.’ But I didn’t buy the excuse.”
Considering everyone preaches free speech, there seems to be a lot of censoring going on.
Especially as during a recent Indiana Fever-Atlanta Dream game, security forced a mother and daughter to cover their XX-XY Athletics shirts under threat of ejection before the WNBA acknowledged the censorship was erroneous and should never have happened.
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