Sportswriter Mike Penner of the Los Angeles Times has died at 52. His physique was begin at his home and suicide was the doubtable could cause of death, the cardboard reported. Penner, a actual able writer, fabricated account in 2007 if he appear he was transsexual and afflicted his name to Christine Daniels. In 2008, he transitioned aback and became Mike Penner again. I endure saw Mike anon afterwards he had transitioned aback to a male. It was a abbreviate and awkward affair as he told me he was disturbing and didn’t wish to talk. In August 2007, Christine Daniels was accustomed by the National Gay and Lesbian Journalists Assn. at its assemblage in San Diego for cogent her adventure publicly. “I am a transsexual sports writer,” Penner wrote in his aboriginal cavalcade discussing his transition. “It has taken added than 40 years, a actor tears and hundreds of hours of soul-wrenching analysis for me to plan up the adventuresomeness to blazon those words.” He became somewhat of a celebrity in the LGBT association and was approved afterwards as a speaker. At our endure meeting, I sensed he was embarassed that he created a stir, alone to about-face back. I never advised Mike and alone capital him to acquisition a beatitude that seemed to baffle him. He was a balmy and affable animal getting and I am afflicted by his death. May he blow in peace. | ||