Seattle Times Columnist Quits After Paper Spikes Column Defending Girls’ Sports

A longtime Seattle Times sports columnist has resigned after the newspaper refused to publish a column arguing that supporting separate sports for biological women does not make someone a bigot. Matt Calkins, who spent 11 years at the newspaper, announced his resignation Thursday, saying the decision was entirely his own. The final straw, he said, was the paper’s refusal to run a column built…