“Upon further consideration, we concluded the essay did not include some key facts and its overall tone was not consistent with what we seek to publish.” The piece, titled “Laverne Cox Is Not A Woman,” stirred considerable outrage.
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A day after republishing a column by National Review correspondent Kevin D. Williamson with the headline, "Laverne Cox Is Not A Woman," the Chicago Sun-Times has taken the editorial off of their website and apologized.
"Upon further consideration, we concluded the essay did not include some key facts and its overall tone was not consistent with what we seek to publish," editorial editor Tom McNamee told BuzzFeed in a statement. He added that it was the "right thing to do."
Shortly before the article was pulled, Sun-Times digital editor Brandon Wall tweeted, then deleted, that the editorial being published was the result of a "colossal parade of fuck ups."
The column was in reaction to Cox, a transgender activist famous for her role on Orange Is The New Black, appearing on the cover of the most recent issue of Time.
"Regardless of the question of whether he has had his genitals amputated, Cox is not a woman, but an effigy of a woman," Williamson wrote. "Sex is a biological reality, and it is not subordinate to subjective impressions, no matter how intense those impressions are, how sincerely they are held, or how painful they make facing the biological facts of life. No hormone injection or surgical mutilation is sufficient to change that."
The writer added that transgender individuals are attempting to legalize "treating delusion as fact."
Many were enraged over the editorial, with LGBT rights blogs calling the piece transphobic, and one organization creating a petition that accumulated 601 signatures calling for the Sun-Times to pull the article and apologize.
Many commenters on the newspaper's Facebook page and on Twitter said they were going to unsubscribe from the Sun-Times because of the editorial.
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