-
sponsorship
On Wednesday, Hanna asked "Is it
normal to be transgender?" On Thursday, Adam Reilly at the
Boston Phoenix asked whether being transgender is newsworthy.
Reilly analyzes the coverage of Aiden Quinn, the 24-year-old subway driver who
crashed a Boston train earlier this month, injuring 50, moments after texting
his girlfriend. And hey, by the way, he used to be a woman. Reilly writes:
Given Quinn's admission that he was, in fact, texting prior to the accident,
there's a general consensus that he's a dumbass. But there's no such agreement
among the Boston media as to whether his switch from identifying as a woman to a
man was...
(To read the rest of this post, visit our new website DoubleX.com!)