Trans row rocks Guardian towers, again

Oh dear. It seems that life in the offices of the world’s wokest paper isn’t all its cracked up to be. For the Guardian’s sister paper – with which it shares an office – has been accused of ‘institutionalised transphobia’ by a disgruntled former writer. James Wong, the Observer’s garden columnist departed last week with a parting shot at his onetime employer. He wrote on Instagram that he left after being reprimanded by an editor for publicly criticising one of his paper’s articles about trans rights:

After formally complaining about an article that likened politicians who support trans rights to alleged sex traffickers, the editor ignored my complaint and reprimanded me for revealing that I had even made it.

And underneath a similar post on Twitter he responded to a tweet asking what is ‘wrong with the Observer‘ with the retort ‘Institutionalised transphobia.’ Wong was criticising an article written in January by columnist Catherine Bennett, headlined: ‘Forget Andrew Tate – what about the host of misogynists in Labour’s ranks?’ in which she condemned Labour MPs Lloyd Russell-Moyle and Ben Bradshaw over their views on trans rights and their comments about female MPs.