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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
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
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