The Age sacks columnist Julie Szego
By Neeraja Gopalakrishnan in Media News on Wednesday, 14th June 2023 at 3:04pmThe Age has sacked columnist Julie Szego for calling out the publication over its refusal to run her article on youth gender transition, The Australian reports. 
Szego announced to socials that she had been commissioned to write a story about youth gender transition but the masthead refused to publish it. She published the story on her own Substack page.
In a LinkedIn post, Szego said she will be rolling out more pieces in a series in her new blog exploring inequitable education system, identity politics, sexual politics and brutalist architecture.
“I’ll be writing about gender identity politics more broadly— without the copy being rendered unreadable by a committee of woke journalists redacting words they deem incendiary, such as ‘male’,” she said.
Szego told The A...
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