A Killing Leaves A Copy-Editing Quandary
BY DANA HULL
AP WideWorld / Marcio Jose Sanchez
When Eddie "Gwen'' Araujo, a transgender seventeen-year-old, was brutally murdered in Newark, California, last fall, the press faced a conundrum: was Araujo a he or a she? Araujo identified as female, and called herself Gwen after a favorite singer. She had long dark hair and wore makeup.