The Age newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, has ended its relationship with columnist Julie Szego over a feature story about youth gender identity disorders.
According to Szego, she had been commissioned to write a 5,000-word feature article on the issue, but the current editor, Patrick Elligett, refused to run it.
Szego revealed that Elligett had described her piece as “good,” but it could not be published under her name because she had taken a position on gender issues in her opinion writing.
“To say that sex is real and it matters, makes you ‘biased’ apparently. Or, according to [Victorian Labor Premier] Daniel Andrews, a bigot,” she wrote on Twitter on June 11….