{"publisher":{"name":"MediaBias News","url":"https://mediabias.news","methodology":"https://mediabias.news/methodology","editorialPrinciples":"https://mediabias.news/editorial-principles","corrections":"https://mediabias.news/corrections"},"scoreGuide":{"trust":"How well corroborated and evidenced the source reporting is. 0-100, higher is better.","critic":"Craft quality of the source journalism: context, balance, fact vs comment. 0-100, higher is better.","hype":"How far the source presentation runs ahead of substance. 0-100, LOWER IS BETTER.","scope":"Scores assess the original reporting this article was written from, not the truth of the underlying event and not the quality of this write-up."},"assessmentGuide":{"type":"coverage-and-source-reporting-analysis","factCheck":{"status":"not-performed","note":"Media Bias News compares coverage and scores the source reporting. It does not currently publish a ClaimReview verdict on whether the underlying event or claim is true."},"sourceFactuality":{"note":"Factuality values describe published ratings of the outlets that covered the story. They are not a factuality verdict on this story or its claims."}},"story":{"id":"https://mediabias.news/media/seattle-times-columnist-matt-calkins-resigns-over-spiked-transgender-athletes-co","slug":"seattle-times-columnist-matt-calkins-resigns-over-spiked-transgender-athletes-co","url":"https://mediabias.news/media/seattle-times-columnist-matt-calkins-resigns-over-spiked-transgender-athletes-co","title":"Seattle Times columnist Matt Calkins resigns over spiked transgender athletes column","subtitle":"Calkins said the paper refused to publish his piece on WNBA star Sophie Cunningham’s stance on women’s sports","excerpt":"Matt Calkins resigned from the Seattle Times on 20 August 2026 after the paper declined to publish his column on transgender athletes in women’s sports. Calkins said the decision followed interviews with student-athletes opposing transgender participation in female sports, and that the paper had rejected other proposed columns. The Seattle Times has not commented.","category":"Media","area":"United States","publishedAt":"2026-08-21T02:25:38.885Z","sourceReportedAt":"2026-08-20T22:55:54.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-08-21T02:25:38.885Z","readTime":"5 min read","scores":{"trust":55,"critic":55,"hype":55,"notes":{"trust":"HuffPost report is the only full article; others are digests.","critic":"HuffPost quotes affected parties; others lack detail.","hype":"Several digests use loaded language not in HuffPost."}},"tags":["#TransgenderAthletes","#PressFreedom","#WNBA","#SeattleTimes","#SportsJournalism"],"entities":["Matt Calkins","Seattle Times","Sophie Cunningham","WNBA"],"body":[{"type":"key_takeaways","items":["Matt Calkins resigned from the Seattle Times on 20 August 2026 after the paper refused to publish his column on transgender athletes in women’s sports.","Calkins said the column drew from interviews with student-athletes who oppose transgender girls competing in female sports, and that an editor told him six days after submission it would not run.","The Seattle Times has not commented on Calkins’ resignation or the spiked column. Calkins said the paper had declined to publish other proposed columns.","Sophie Cunningham, whose stance the column addressed, told ESPN she is ‘very much in the middle’ politically and denies hating transgender people."]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Matt Calkins resigned from the Seattle Times on 20 August 2026 after 11 years as a sports columnist. He said the paper refused to publish a column he wrote on transgender athletes in women’s sports, which included interviews with two Washington student-athletes who oppose allowing transgender girls to compete in female sports. Calkins said an editor informed him six days after he submitted the draft that it would not run."},{"type":"paragraph","text":"In a post on his Substack, Calkins said the column argued that supporting the separation of biological males and females in sports does not make someone transphobic. He said the Seattle Times had also declined to publish other columns he proposed, which he described as challenging \"prevailing newsroom narratives\". Calkins said he resigned because he could no longer perform the job he was hired to do."},{"type":"paragraph","text":"The Seattle Times has not commented on Calkins’ resignation or the spiked column. Sophie Cunningham, the WNBA player whose stance on transgender athletes the column addressed, told ESPN in July 2026 that she is \"very much in the middle\" politically and that she wants to \"protect young girls in sport who shouldn’t have to go against biological men\"."},{"type":"heading","text":"What the coverage left out"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"None of the centre-rated digests mentioned that Calkins said the Seattle Times had declined to publish other proposed columns. None of the right-rated digests mentioned that Cunningham told ESPN she is \"very much in the middle\" politically. The HuffPost report was the only one to quote Calkins’ statement that he resigned because he could no longer \"do my job properly\"."}],"basedOn":[{"sourceName":"The American Tribune","url":"https://theamericantribune.com/longtime-sports-reporter-quits-after-over-a-decade-exposes-the-dastardly-deeds-of-his-former-media-employer","headline":"Longtime Sports Reporter Quits After Over A Decade, Exposes The Dastardly Deeds Of His Former Media Employer - The American Tribune.com","angle":"","publishedAt":"2026-08-22T06:15:10.000Z"},{"sourceName":"Nisqually Valley News","url":"https://yelmonline.com/stories/seattle-times-loses-columnist-over-refusal-to-publish-womens-sports-article,407035","headline":"Seattle Times loses columnist over refusal to publish women’s sports article","angle":"","publishedAt":"2026-08-21T23:33:50.000Z"},{"sourceName":"The 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