The Guardian has been accused by one of its columnists of “censoring” important discussions about gender identity.
Hadley Freeman, who worked for the newspaper for 22 years, said that editors were fearful of tackling transgender issues over fears of a backlash by staff and being labelled bigots
She made the criticisms in a farewell letter to Katharine Viner, the editor-in-chief, in which she said that the paper’s once willing embrace of complex issues had disappeared in regard to the “gender issue”.
Freeman, 44, who is joining The Sunday Times in January, outlined how her repeated calls to investigate the transgender charity Mermaids were rejected. She wrote that her efforts were “to no avail, either because of the editors’ ideological beliefs or — more likely —
