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Transsexual sportswriter Mike Penner, a.k.a., Christine Daniels, commits suicide
NY Daily NEws ^ | Nov 28, 2009 | Tracy Connor

Posted on 11/28/2009 8:13:50 PM PST by tcrlaf

A Los Angeles sportswriter who stunned readers with the announcement that he was a transsexual - and then later abandoned his sex change plans - has committed suicide.

Los Angeles Times veteran Mike Penner, 52, was found dead at his home, the paper reported Saturday.

In 2007, Penner made headlines around the world by announcing in a column for the paper that he planned to live life as a woman named Christine Daniels.

"Today I leave for a few weeks' vacation, and when I return, I will come back in yet another incarnation. As Christine," he wrote.

(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: gay; reporter; suicide; transexual
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Things that make you want go hmmmm....
1 posted on 11/28/2009 8:13:53 PM PST by tcrlaf
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To: tcrlaf

At least his suffering is over.


2 posted on 11/28/2009 8:15:22 PM PST by Mad_Tom_Rackham (It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government -- Thomas Payne)
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To: tcrlaf

RIP


3 posted on 11/28/2009 8:17:48 PM PST by nralife (Sarah doesn't know it's a damn show! She thinks it's a damn fight!)
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To: Mad_Tom_Rackham

Mayhap his suffering has only begun.


4 posted on 11/28/2009 8:18:04 PM PST by doc1019 (Obama, not so much.)
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To: tcrlaf
Penner, who was taking female hormones but never had sex change surgery, didn't publicly explain his decision.

female hormones are nothing to mess around with.

5 posted on 11/28/2009 8:20:30 PM PST by MarMema (chains we can believe in)
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To: tcrlaf

Rest in peace.


6 posted on 11/28/2009 8:21:17 PM PST by Psycho_Bunny (ALSO SPRACH ZEROTHUSTRA)
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To: tcrlaf

Who could have seen this coming?


7 posted on 11/28/2009 8:21:22 PM PST by massmike (...So this is what happens when OJ's jury elects the president....)
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To: tcrlaf

For those who make all these changes to their identity.......be it with dozens of plastic surgeries (a la Michael Jackson) or this sports writer with a sex change operation......their “freedom” to try to be what they are not only brings dispair, not fulfillment.


8 posted on 11/28/2009 8:21:41 PM PST by TMA62 (TMA62)
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To: tcrlaf

RIP. May the Lord heal your tortured soul.


9 posted on 11/28/2009 8:23:42 PM PST by Ancient Drive (DRINK COFFEE! - Do Stupid Things Faster with More Energy!)
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To: tcrlaf
he was a transsexual

It was his death style choice.

10 posted on 11/28/2009 8:26:57 PM PST by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: tcrlaf
http://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen/09a/rmv_trans/LA_times_reporter.html PhotobucketPhotobucket
11 posted on 11/28/2009 8:27:28 PM PST by massmike (...So this is what happens when OJ's jury elects the president....)
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To: tcrlaf
"Today I leave for a few weeks' vacation, and when I return, I will come back in yet another incarnation. As Christine," he wrote.

They must have forgotten to tell him about PMS.

12 posted on 11/28/2009 8:31:18 PM PST by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: massmike

He was a fairly unattractive female. Plus , the weight gain didnt help much. That might have been part of the problem.


13 posted on 11/28/2009 8:34:50 PM PST by Nonstatist
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To: tcrlaf
"Transsexual sportswriter Mike Penner, a.k.a., Christine Daniels, commits suicide.

So what?

14 posted on 11/28/2009 8:36:57 PM PST by blackbart.223 (I live in Northern Nevada. Reid doesn't represent me.)
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"He was a fairly unattractive female. Plus , the weight gain didnt help much. That might have been part of the problem."

The liberals will be claiming the he/she committed suicide because conservatives didn't accept him/her, and caused him/her to be depressed. Frankly, I believe it was the very perversions that he/she practiced that drove him/her over the edge. Nobody can really live happily as a sexual deviate, in fact homos and other sexual deviates have the highest rate of suicide of any other group. There is a price to pay for playing with the nature God gave to us.

15 posted on 11/28/2009 8:44:49 PM PST by jiminycricket000
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To: MarMema

“female hormones are nothing to mess around with.”

Especially when they’ve got a 9 iron; just ask Tiger Woods.


16 posted on 11/28/2009 8:46:43 PM PST by PLMerite (Ride to the sound of the Guns - I'll probably need help.)
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Whatever was bothering him about himself before the shots was bothering him afterwards. All that damage to his body, for nothing.

It was, in a way, very childish to jump over the pond that way, like all you were doing was getting a hair cut. Sad, sad and sad.

17 posted on 11/28/2009 8:50:28 PM PST by Nonstatist
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-He was a fairly unattractive female.-

He STILL didn’t look as bad as Chastity Bono.


18 posted on 11/28/2009 8:51:58 PM PST by massmike (...So this is what happens when OJ's jury elects the president....)
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To: PLMerite

“Especially when they’ve got a 9 iron; just ask Tiger Woods.”

ROFLMAO! YES YES, IT WAS THERE!


19 posted on 11/28/2009 8:53:16 PM PST by jocon307
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To: tcrlaf

May God ease this man’s suffering at last and fill him with the Lord’s Grace and love.


20 posted on 11/28/2009 8:57:52 PM PST by Wpin (I do not regret my admiration for W)
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