Seattle Times columnist resigns after paper allegedly refused to run 'Save Women's Sports' column

The Seattle Times lost sports columnist Matt Calkins in a highly publicized resignation on Thursday, after Calkins claimed the paper refused to run a piece on women's sports activists. Calkins, who spent 11 years at the outlet, said the decision not to publish his column left him unable to perform the job he was hired to do. The column centered on two Washington student-athletes who oppose allowing transgender girls to compete in female sports, that were recently at the center of a national cont