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Wait a minute...T driver was born a woman?
By ESun on Mon, 05/11/2009 - 11:12pm
Channel 5's TV coverage of the latest on Friday's T collision has a handy graphic recreating the collision but only on their website do they provide more interesting facts about the driver...like the fact that he was born a woman.
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re Wait a minute...T driver was born a woman?
What's your point? Who cares?
Man, if you're ever in the news I hope I don't have to read your personal medical information.
I don't think the news
I don't think the news needed to say this, and there are sensitivities to consider.
At least they otherwise identified him as a man.
So...?
Who the hell cares? Male, female or transgender, idiots are still idiots. This person is a complete idiot, regardless of gender.
^^^ THIS
^^^ THIS
preach
seriously. outing people is not relevant or cool.
Being born a woman would be quite the feat...
Since most babies are born as boys or girls, not men or women.. Seriously though, what does this have to do with the story other than to give a background of his record?
Not true
If your point was that they didn't mention that he was born female on the news, that's not true - they mentioned it on the 6:00 news. But it's not relevant anyhow.
Why was this worth reporting?
His age is relevant -- perhaps 24-year-olds shouldn't be give this much responsibility.
His record of traffic violations is relevant -- perhaps it indicates a pattern of recklessness that should disqualify him for this job.
But his gender? What does that have to do with his ability or his culpability in the accident?
I don't think it has anyhting to do with it
other than that the records show that his name used to be Georgia and that his gender changed recently. It may be relevant to avoid confusion by anyone looking up the source documents.
I think that part of the
I think that part of the problem with reporting this -- which some of us dancing around -- is that there *are* a lot of people who will take the transgender thing as a sign of a mental problem or weakness of character.
A lot of other people (myself included) don't think that the transgender thing is relevant, and we (at least me) really don't want to feed the bait to the people who think it is relevant.
Tabloid country
I don't know why, but it seems that this country has become more interested in trivial matters than in matters that are important. Reporting about this trolley operator's gender is a case in point. We care more about a ball player's house being sold or an actor's drug addiction than we do about teaching our youth how to manage their finances or the importance of driving without texting etc, etc... Why do we name a tunnel after a ball player instead of after someone who found a medical cure? Did you know that one of the biggest events (bigger than our NFL Super Bowl) in Japan is a competition between robots created by engineering students? It's true. They look up to brains while we look up to someone who can hit a baseball or throw a football. What is wrong with this picture?
No shortage of adjectives at the Herald
Their story today starts:
Stocky? I dunno, he looks more like he's husky to me.
The story also says Quinn "was behind the wheel" of the trolley. I don't take the Green Line much anymore, but when did they start equipping them with steering wheels?
It's just as I feared - now
It's just as I feared - now watch all the idiots out there make the argument that the T hires with diversity as the sole consideration, which is clearly not the case. However, I would ask them to increase the age a person can be made an operator of a vehicle. I think basic immaturity is the root of the problem here.
The fact that the T driver
The fact that the T driver is trans is irrelevant. I had thought, before I ever heard about this, that is was very weird that the media was camped out in front of his house. We know the facts--he very wisely handed over his cell phone immediately. The systemic problem is the issue here, not this guy's address or gender identity or personality. The T will now have a no cell phones policy--as it always should have had. Why didn't it always? What total lack of judgement led to their absurd 3 strikes policy? Are there other areas of T management that are similarly broken? That is the story here.
Whit
Age? Not really
How old do any of the people in this video seem?
Today Show spot on texting while driving in public transit
Where does this idea that
Where does this idea that forty-year-olds are all collectively mature come from? Have you people never been to Southie on a Friday?
Not solely for diversity...
... but we are talking about an agency in which the director of non-discrimination was fired... for discrimination:
https://www.universalhub.com/node/15620
While it's hard to believe that they went out of their way to hire this person-- I'm assuming that there was some family connection or political favor involved here-- let's not pretend that their record on hiring is spotless.
I agree with the chorus
I agree with the chorus about how irrelevant this is, but it DID finally explain something to me:
I was wondering who the hell sticks their kid with the same name as a famous actor.