L.A. Times sportswriter: I'm a transsexual

[muscle23ftl]

Posted: 4/27/07 at 1:52am

LOS ANGELES (AP) - A veteran sports writer for the Los Angeles Times said in his column Thursday that he is a transsexual.

Mike Penner told readers of his struggle to embrace his gender, and said when he returns from vacation in a few weeks he will be known as Christine Daniels. He did not say whether he was having surgery or why he's changing his last name.
"I am a transsexual sports writer," Penner wrote. "It has taken more than 40 years, a million tears and hundreds of hours of soul-wrenching therapy for me to work up the courage to type those words."

The 49-year-old Penner said his brain has been "wired female


http://msn.foxsports.com/other/story/6743034?MSNHPHCP>1=9331

[YouWantitWhen????]

Posted: 4/27/07 at 2:13am

See this thread:


LA TImes Transsexual Sportswriter

[tazber]

Posted: 4/27/07 at 5:00am

How selfish of him! Did he not think about how this might skeev out all his breeder readers?

[muscle23ftl]

Posted: 4/27/07 at 10:47am

Oh, I didn't see that other thread, anyways, that's a butch job for a transsexual-to-be, I'd have thought they were all hairdressers or fashion designers.