Matt Calkins
@Matt_Calkins
Columnist at OutKick exploring sports, culture and beyond.
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Earlier in this interview, Rapinoe says "If you're a trans person in sports...you couldn't just say, one day, 'I'm a woman' and go play. That's not how it works." Yet that is EXACTLY what happened with the trans cross country runner in Camas, WA, who switched from the boys to the girls team in the middle of the season.
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When the Seattle Times disables its comment section, it's a huge middle finger to readers.
Because it has nothing to with "sensitive" subject matter, and everything to do with shutting down dissent. My latest.
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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. I lay out the situation in greater detail in the link below, but I want to say that I enjoyed my time with the paper, find the talent there to be immense, and have no animosity toward anyone who works there. It was just time for a change.
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