{"id":7077,"date":"2026-08-21T10:39:33","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T10:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=7077"},"modified":"2026-08-21T10:39:33","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T10:39:33","slug":"i-quit-my-11-year-job-after-the-seattle-times-killed-my-sophie-cunningham-column-read-it-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=7077","title":{"rendered":"I quit my 11-year job after the Seattle Times killed my Sophie Cunningham column \u2014 read it here"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I really wanted the column to run. I didn\u2019t think it would, but I felt obligated to try to get it in.<\/p>\n

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Toward the end of last month, before the Seattle Storm hosted the Indiana Fever, I spoke to people attending a rally in support of Sophie Cunningham outside Climate Pledge Arena.<\/p>\n

The Fever guard had recently taken a stance against biological males competing in women\u2019s\/girls sports, and a few dozen folks showed up to express their gratitude for her position.<\/p>\n

One of them was 16-year-old Ahnaleigh Wilson, who\u2019d lost to a biological male in a track and field race in eighth grade and was holding a sign reading \u201cThank You Sophie for Speaking up for Girls!\u201d<\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t know if I was going to write something at that point, but after she allegedly got cussed out by a Storm co-owner during the game, I felt like I had to weigh in.<\/p>\n

One thing Wilson emphasized to me at the rally was that she wasn\u2019t anti-trans. Another student-athlete named Frances Staudt \u2014 who said she\u2019s endured daily verbal abuse after refusing to play against a biological boy in a basketball game \u2014 echoed Wilson\u2019s sentiment.<\/p>\n

So that was the thesis of my column (which you can read\u00a0here or below) \u2014 that supporting the separation of biological females and males doesn\u2019t automatically make you transphobic, so let\u2019s stop throwing those labels around.<\/p>\n

I sent a draft after talking to my editor the morning of Friday, July 31, telling him there was no rush to run it. He told me later that day that he and others were looking at it, but that it wouldn\u2019t be ready for Sunday\u2019s paper. <\/p>\n

Monday night, I got an email saying that his boss was hoping to talk to the top two newsroom editors about it on Wednesday. No feedback had been given to me. Thursday afternoon, my editor informed me that it wasn\u2019t going to run because I didn\u2019t tell him I was doing this in advance. I didn\u2019t buy this reasoning. If that were the case, the piece would have been killed on the spot, not passed through the hands of multiple editors over several days.<\/p>\n

My response? To resign on the spot.<\/p>\n

That may come off as an emotional decision, but it was exactly what I was prepared to do. This, after all, was one of several columns of mine that had been spiked at the Seattle Times.<\/p>\n

One was a piece questioning whether players for the US Women\u2019s Soccer Team were really the victims of discrimination in their equal-pay lawsuit. Another was a more general column on cancel culture in sports. The last, written shortly after George Floyd\u2019s death, implored people to listen to state-champion basketball coach Mike Bethea \u2014 a black man urging the public not to stereotype cops. The common theme? All of these challenged prevailing newsroom narratives and likely would have triggered the outrage mob.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve always thought that it was a columnist\u2019s duty to generate discussion on the most hot-button issues. To avoid such topics was to leave the reader shortchanged. I guess in the end, I just didn\u2019t feel like I could do my job properly anymore.<\/p>\n

Right now, I\u2019m in the tenuous position of trying to defend my resignation without sounding like a malcontent. So let me say \u2014 I\u2019m very grateful for the 11 years I had at the Seattle Times. The talent there is immense, and the editors let me have a lot of fun with other stories. I also realize where the brass is coming from. The mob is frightening and does not forget. Lots of seemingly brave souls have submitted once activists got their hooks in them. If I had more people depending on me, perhaps I\u2019d act similarly.<\/p>\n

But in thinking\u00a0about this decision, I kept going back to an Albus Dumbledore line: \u201cWe must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.\u201d<\/p>\n

To be honest, I\u2019m scared sh\u2013less right now. I have no idea how the next few months or years are going to play out. But that fear beats the indignity of being muzzled.<\/p>\n

The plan for now is to keep writing in this space. Maybe that will spawn a new career, or maybe I\u2019ll be a dental assistant in two years. I genuinely don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n

All that\u2019s certain is that I\u2019m done holding back. The best things in life are free \u2014 speech being at the top of the list.<\/p>\n

Matt Calkins is a former sports columnist for The Seattle Times. He now writes on Substack at mattycee.substack.com.<\/em><\/p>\n

You can read his full column below:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Some people saw bigotry. I saw bravery.<\/em><\/p>\n

I saw a teenage girl speaking up on an issue that so many adults shy away from.<\/em><\/p>\n

About 90 minutes before the Storm played the Fever last Tuesday, 16-year-old Ahnaleigh Wilson stood at a rally outside Climate Pledge Arena wearing an XX-XY Athletics shirt while holding a sign reading \u201cThank You Sophie For Speaking Up For Girls!\u201d It was a nod to Fever guard Sophie Cunningham, who has recently come out against trans females competing against biological ones.<\/em><\/p>\n

There were no slurs hurled. No malice detected. It was just Wilson, an Eastmont High student in East Wenatchee, demonstrating what some have trouble accepting: that agreeing with Cunningham\u2019s position does not make you transphobic.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t hate trans people and I have nothing against them,\u201d Wilson said. \u201cI just think that girls should have their own sports.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Two things can be true at once. You can show compassion for people who feel trapped in the wrong body while acknowledging they have a biological advantage. After all, why do we separate males and females in sports in the first place?<\/em><\/p>\n

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It\u2019s not due to the potential awkwardness of physical contact.\u00a0It\u2019s because men have higher testosterone levels and different skeletal and muscular frames, which together produce significant performance advantages.\u00a0This isn\u2019t something I bring up at dinner parties, but it\u2019s undeniable. By every measurable metric in sports \u2014 whether it be 100-meter times, vertical leaps, weightlifting, yards off the tee, etc. \u2014 the top males substantially outperform the top females.<\/em><\/p>\n

In short: The separation is\u00a0strictly\u00a0for the sake of girls and women. So surely one can see why, to many, allowing biological males to compete against females undermines this division.<\/em><\/p>\n

Wilson started speaking out after she finished second to a trans athlete in the mile at a Junior Olympics track meet two years ago. Before Tuesday\u2019s Storm game, she said that most of the in-person feedback she\u2019d received had been positive \u2014 that the real vitriol was online.<\/em><\/p>\n

Well, all that changed a couple hours later in the arena, where Wilson sat courtside with her \u201cThank You Sophie\u201d sign in hand.<\/em><\/p>\n

During the game, Storm co-owner Celeste Keaton walked over to Wilson, allegedly called her \u201cf***ing insane,\u201d added \u201cI hope Jesus can forgive you,\u201d and supposedly brought her to tears.\u00a0This happened after a fan pointed to another Sophie supporter and yelled \u201cgarbage! Take the trash out!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

It\u2019s been a category 5 hurricane since, with Keaton receiving a five-game suspension, J.K. Rowling and Cunningham showing Wilson support on X, and pundits from every corner of the internet dissecting the scene.<\/em><\/p>\n

I suppose I could make this about the WNBA and its steady habit of garnering the wrong kind of attention. But I\u2019d rather stick to the issue of who should be allowed to participate in women\u2019s sports. This is what Wilson comes to rallies for \u2014 not international drama.<\/em><\/p>\n

One common counterargument against her and Cunningham\u2019s stance is that biological men in women\u2019s sports is rare, so why make a fuss?<\/em><\/p>\n

OK, but if something is wrong, why should it matter how rare it is? Are opponents saying that if the amount of trans athletes reaches a certain number,\u00a0then\u00a0we should address it? To me, this is almost a tacit admission that there is, indeed, something unfair occurring.<\/em><\/p>\n

Plus, how rare is rare? Trans swimmer Lia Thomas won the national title in the women\u2019s 500 meters while at Penn. Trans cyclist Veronica Ivy set a world record in the 200 meter sprint for her age group. Trans weightlifter Laurel Hubbard won silver at the 2017 World Championships and in 2020, became the first openly trans person to compete in the Olympics.<\/em><\/p>\n

Here in Washington, trans track athlete Veronica Garcia, representing East Valley High in Spokane Valley, won the 2025 state title in the 400 meters. In Oregon, McDaniel High\u2019s Ada Gallagher won the 2025 state title in the 200 meters. In California, Jurupa Valley High\u2019s AB Hernandez won the 2025 state title in the high jump and triple jump. This doesn\u2019t mean trans athletes have overtaken women\u2019s sports completely, but the list goes beyond the examples above.<\/em><\/p>\n

Another counter is that trans people are more vulnerable than most, and barring them from sports could be emotionally devastating. I\u2019m not unsympathetic to this. Two points, though. First \u2014 who\u2019s to say that a biological girl wouldn\u2019t also feel distressed if displaced by a trans athlete or forced to share a locker room with a biological male? Second and more importantly, this is about fairness, not feelings.\u00a0The unfortunate truth with this issue is that\u00a0someone\u00a0is going to be disappointed \u2014 either the biological female who feels she\u2019s unreasonably disadvantaged, or the trans athlete who can\u2019t participate. This debate is simply about who it should be.<\/em><\/p>\n

Come November, Washingtonians can vote on an initiative that, if passed, would preclude biological males from competing against females in school sports. And though one might think this will increase open dialogue on the matter, we all know this is one of the more frightening topics to address.<\/em><\/p>\n

Even if polling suggests that most of the country sides with Cunningham and Wilson, nobody wants to be called a bigot or a transphobe.<\/em><\/p>\n

Such attacks are what Tumwater High student Frances Staudt says she endures every day at school. Two Marches ago, Staudt refused to play basketball against a biological male from Shelton for fear of being injured. She added that the biological male\u2019s presence in her locker room made her feel uncomfortable.That hasn\u2019t spawned much sympathy from certain peers.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cI have people at my school cussing me out. I have people using some pretty awful words toward me as well. I\u2019ve had people say \u2018F-You, Frances,\u2019 and \u2018I hope you choke and die,\u2019 Staudt said. \u201cBut I know ultimately I\u2019m doing the right thing\u2026this whole thing isn\u2019t about hate.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

So it\u2019s not an anti-trans movement?\u00a0<\/em>I asked Staudt.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s only so many times that I can say that what we are standing up for is not ant-trans,\u201d she said. \u201cThis is pro-women\u2019s sports.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

This\u00a0doesn\u2019t mean that there aren\u2019t bigoted or transphobic supporters of this\u00a0position. But what if we withheld these labels until absolutely sure? Most people, I think, want to do what\u2019s right. They just have different opinions on what right is.<\/em><\/p>\n

We saw that at Tuesday\u2019s rally, which included protesters who came to denounce the pro-Cunningham event. In one of their hands was a sign that read \u201cNo Hate in WA State.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

It was supposed to be a shot at the Sophie supporters, but I don\u2019t think it landed. Something tells me that Ahnaleigh Wilson saw that and thought \u201cI couldn\u2019t agree more.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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