Infighting at Business Insider Over Pulled Column on Transgender Issues

On July 6, Business Insider took down a post by conservative columnist Daniella Greenbaum that said “Scarlett Johansson is being unfairly criticized for doing her job after being cast as a transgender man,” just hours after it went up.

Greenbaum’s column (
which can be found cached,
here
UPDATE: which we have republished here) took issue with criticism Johansson and her colleagues faced after her casting as trans male in the soon-to-be-released film Rub and Tug. The reasoning given by BI was that the column violated the the publication’s editorial standards (which seem to have been established, or re-established, ex-post facto). How can someone who isn’t trans, portray a trans character, so goes the argument.