Boston Phoenix Boston editors debated that after it was learned that the subway driver (left) who crashed a train while allegedly texting his girlfriend is a female-to-male transsexual. The Globe initially decided the transgender status wasn't relevant, but "because many of the facts that we were getting about him involved his driving record, and it was right there on his driving record that he was transgender -- the proper thing to do was point it out, but not play it up particularly high in the story," says metro editor
Brian McGrory.
