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Loose-screw feminist Suzanne Moore leaves Guardian months after staff send letter of revolt over 'transphobic content'
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Hilda and Jesse
Feb 13, 2022, 6:20:02 AM2/13/22
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Suzanne Moore, who won the Orwell Foundation’s Journalism Prize
in 2019 for her writing for the Guardian, announced her
resignation on Monday evening.
She tweeted: “I have left The Guardian. I will very much miss
SOME of the people there. For now that’s all I can say.”
After an outpouring of support Moore later added: “It was
entirely my choice to go. I will tell you all about it one day .
For now thank you for these lovely messages. I feel like I am at
my own funeral or something.
“Anyway I will keep writing of course! The efforts to shut me up
seem not to have been very well thought through.”
A Guardian News and Media spokesperson said: “We wish Suzanne
all the best with her future career and are sorry to see her
leave.”
In March, 338 Guardian employees across editorial, tech and
commercial teams wrote to editor Kath Viner after the
publication of Moore’s article “Women must have the right to
organise. We will not be silenced” in which she wrote about sex
being a biological classification “not a feeling”.
Moore also revealed that she and her children had received death
and rape threats and been forced to get police involved after
“being deemed transphobic by an invisible committee on social
media” – something that happened once again after the
publication of this column.
The staff letter, which was leaked and published without its
signatories’ names by Buzzfeed and Pink News, criticised the
newspaper for its “pattern of publishing transphobic content”
which had “cemented our reputation as a publication hostile to
trans rights and trans employees”.
Moore subsequently leaked the full list of names and called out
her critics on social media.
The Spectator’s Scotland editor Alex Massie wrote on Tuesday
that Moore’s departure left the Guardian “little bit diminished”
where there has been a “narrowing, and perhaps even a closing,
of journalistic minds”.
Similar rows have been going on at the New York Times where
writer and editor Bari Weiss resigned in July over the paper’s
“illiberal environment”, arguing that “Twitter has become its
ultimate editor”.
The media row over coverage of transgender identity issues in
particular has become increasingly virulent.
At the British Journalism Awards in 2018 Times columnist Janice
Turner, who has received criticism for her coverage, said: “When
you write about really difficult and toxic subjects it really
helps to have your newspaper behind you and I just want to thank
the Times… who have been completely behind me in dealing with
something that is complicated.”
On the same night, Buzzfeed’s LGBT editor Patrick Strudwick said
transgender people had become a “new scapegoat” for the media.
Suzanne Moore is a Ex-Guardian columnist. A progressive liberal
whore who hates men and feels she is better than you.
https://pressgazette.co.uk/suzanne-moore-leaves-guardian-months-
after-staff-send-letter-of-revolt-over-transphobic-content/
in 2019 for her writing for the Guardian, announced her
resignation on Monday evening.
She tweeted: “I have left The Guardian. I will very much miss
SOME of the people there. For now that’s all I can say.”
After an outpouring of support Moore later added: “It was
entirely my choice to go. I will tell you all about it one day .
For now thank you for these lovely messages. I feel like I am at
my own funeral or something.
“Anyway I will keep writing of course! The efforts to shut me up
seem not to have been very well thought through.”
A Guardian News and Media spokesperson said: “We wish Suzanne
all the best with her future career and are sorry to see her
leave.”
In March, 338 Guardian employees across editorial, tech and
commercial teams wrote to editor Kath Viner after the
publication of Moore’s article “Women must have the right to
organise. We will not be silenced” in which she wrote about sex
being a biological classification “not a feeling”.
Moore also revealed that she and her children had received death
and rape threats and been forced to get police involved after
“being deemed transphobic by an invisible committee on social
media” – something that happened once again after the
publication of this column.
The staff letter, which was leaked and published without its
signatories’ names by Buzzfeed and Pink News, criticised the
newspaper for its “pattern of publishing transphobic content”
which had “cemented our reputation as a publication hostile to
trans rights and trans employees”.
Moore subsequently leaked the full list of names and called out
her critics on social media.
The Spectator’s Scotland editor Alex Massie wrote on Tuesday
that Moore’s departure left the Guardian “little bit diminished”
where there has been a “narrowing, and perhaps even a closing,
of journalistic minds”.
Similar rows have been going on at the New York Times where
writer and editor Bari Weiss resigned in July over the paper’s
“illiberal environment”, arguing that “Twitter has become its
ultimate editor”.
The media row over coverage of transgender identity issues in
particular has become increasingly virulent.
At the British Journalism Awards in 2018 Times columnist Janice
Turner, who has received criticism for her coverage, said: “When
you write about really difficult and toxic subjects it really
helps to have your newspaper behind you and I just want to thank
the Times… who have been completely behind me in dealing with
something that is complicated.”
On the same night, Buzzfeed’s LGBT editor Patrick Strudwick said
transgender people had become a “new scapegoat” for the media.
Suzanne Moore is a Ex-Guardian columnist. A progressive liberal
whore who hates men and feels she is better than you.
https://pressgazette.co.uk/suzanne-moore-leaves-guardian-months-
after-staff-send-letter-of-revolt-over-transphobic-content/
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