04-26-2007, 03:09 PM
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Disenfranchised
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LA Times Columnist Comes Out As A Transsexual
Old Mike, New Christine:
http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-...home-headlines
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Originally Posted by Mike Penner
During my 23 years with The Times' sports department, I have held a wide variety of roles and titles. Tennis writer. Angels beat reporter. Olympics writer. Essayist. Sports media critic. NFL columnist. Recent keeper of the Morning Briefing flame.
Today I leave for a few weeks' vacation, and when I return, I will come back in yet another incarnation.
As Christine.
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Takes a lot of courage to do something like this ... it will be interesting to see what reaction or news comes of this when he ... to be she ... returns to work.
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04-26-2007, 03:32 PM
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So this is what Jim Rome was refusing to comment about.
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04-26-2007, 03:49 PM
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Disenfranchised
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Indeed it is ... then again, when you were getting emails about it like he was ...
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04-26-2007, 03:50 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2007
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I thought i read a similar situation with, i think it involved someone with the Portland Winterhawks who did a similar thin..this was quite a while ago
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04-26-2007, 04:09 PM
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It takes a brave man...err...woman...err TS to do something like this in a national publication.
Glad to see the US is starting to pull it's head out of it's collective ass on gender issues, though not surprisingly it starts in Cali
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04-26-2007, 04:26 PM
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Eric Francis, possibly the next openly transexual columnist?
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04-26-2007, 04:38 PM
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I once worked with a guy who, after he quit our company, got the "full meal deal" done. Kind of a creepy after effect feeling, knowing that I sat right beside him for a number of years.
He was a hairy bugger too...
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04-26-2007, 05:14 PM
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Well this makes no sense. Girls can't be sports writers. 
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04-26-2007, 05:36 PM
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Whoa. Penner? Holy crap.
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04-26-2007, 05:37 PM
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One of the Nine
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Location: calgary
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good for him/her !!!
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04-27-2007, 09:01 AM
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A follow-up on this in the Times today . . . . . an enormous response to the paper.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-f...home-headlines
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04-27-2007, 10:14 AM
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How will that work for the change room interviews?
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04-27-2007, 10:36 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by DuffMan
How will that work for the change room interviews?
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Women reporters are common in dressing rooms these days.
Transgender reporters . . . . well, it would be hard to believe that in the testosterone-fuelled average dressing room that he's, er, she isn't going to attract some tomfoolery and perhaps even some nastiness.
Not saying its right but he, er she, has to know the transformation probably won't pass without comment or jocularity.
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04-27-2007, 12:35 PM
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After reading the articles, I have to say that coming out in such a public way must have taken a lot of guts. I think that if I was in that situation that I probably wouldn't be able to do that.
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