Sports columnist: 'I am a transsexual'

Yahoo ^ | 4/26/7

[Michael.SF.]

Mike Penner told readers of his struggle to embrace his gender,

Oh come on Mike. I first embraced my gender when I was 12. All guys have embraced their gender at one time or another. It is not that difficult.

[ichabod1]

I’m a gay man and a gay journalist.

[Jaysun]

He should be shunned as a pervert and treated as a mental case. I don’t expect this to happen in LA, or 2007. Sad.

[ichabod1]

I wonder if they could turn me into a porpoise.

[txroadkill]

[kinoxi]

South Park described this scenario quite well didn’t they?

[Veeram]

Ya know, years ago the shrinks would counsel people in the hope they get through their problem. But today, they just hand the guy a dress and tell him “it’s OK, it’s who you really are”

God help us !

[Ieatfrijoles]

Did the kids in gym class use to call him Mike Pinner?

[Yossarian]

If he can change the X-Y chromosome in each and every one of the tens of billions of somatic cells his body is made up of, to a feminine Y-Y form, then something can be said.

Holy typos! Methinks you mean "X-X" for women - us men aren't letting the Y chromosone out of our grasps! (Think of it like a can of beer or the TV remote....)

[Dilbert San Diego]

I get so confused. On the one hand, we’re not supposed to discriminate on account of gender / sexual identity issues. We’re told that one’s identity in this area is not significant. But then this guy says that the most important truth in his life is that he is trans.......

And he’s very open about it. So he wants us to know all about it, yet he’s very private about certain things such as whether he will have the surgery and why is he changing his last name as well as first name.

I hope he told his wife so she knows.

[GOP Poet]

In his LA TIMES coming out article posted on Drudge he basically writes how this is normal and blah, blah, blah this is the science behind it . . . its not that strange there are so many others. And all I was thinking is one, this person is a sports writer not a scientist or psychologist, so he has no business writing for a major paper as such. And two, WHAT THEY HECK IS THIS DOING ON THE SPORTS PAGE??

Talk about mainstreaming this crap up and down our generations. That makes me ill. I canceled long ago (5 and a half to be exact) so can’t cancel again . . . darn. This guy can do what the heck he wants, but I am sick of this stuff being forced down our throats and readily accepted.

[doctor noe]

Link to SBB

[ExpatGator]

I would make a comment on loaded bats, but it would be in poor taste...

[JLS]

Let’s see, I am employed in a dying industry. This industry is very public, but my name and face are not seen in my job. So I will under go a superficial [It is not like HE won’t have y chromosones.] sex change and tell everyone.

I have it he is having him male sex organs removed to save his job. There is a real company man. He knows the PC LA Times will fire the women and minorities last. And he is making himself the rarest of the rare. That is I guess about the best work place advancement plan a white[?] male could come up with at the LA Times.

[Maximus of Texas]

I can top that. I have SARS AIDS.

[CarrotAndStick]

Oops, sorry. A BIG oops, actually.

[SF Republican]

Does this mean he is taking a 25% cut in pay too?

[CarrotAndStick]

The Y chromosome is one of the sex-determining chromosomes in humans and most other mammals. In mammals, it contains the gene SRY, which triggers testis development, thus determining maleness.

[Vicomte13]

“’I am a transsexual sports writer,’ Penner wrote.”

Or rather, you WERE one.

[tioga]

yeah, so how many sports stars want him interviewing them and giving them a slap on the butt?