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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles Times sports writer Mike Penner, who announced two years ago he was a transsexual and was changing his name to Christine Daniels, has died at age 52, the newspaper reported Saturday. Penner was pronounced dead Friday at a hospital, said Los Angeles County coroner's Lt. Brian Elias. He said coroner's officials hadn't yet performed an autopsy or issued an official cause of death. The Times said in a story Saturday Penner was believed to have committed suicide. Penner had returned to using the name Mike Penner last year and was a Times columnist at...

Thea Cox, a burglar caught stealing make-up and women’s clothes has been spared a prison sentence after a judge decided she had endured “a rotten life” as a transsexual. Thea Cox: Outside court the burglar, who was christened Timothy, blamed her life of crime on the public's reaction to her change of sex 26 years ago. Photo: SWNS Cox, 54, was originally given a suspended 12-week prison sentence for having an offensive weapon with her as she carried out four burglaries last year. She returned to the same student flats this summer and carried out two further raids – on...

People can be strange, heck just look at the folks who identify with the left. But when you're looking at them through a "Liberal Virtual Reality Helmet", let's just say that it's an experience to be remembered! NOTE: The author of this comic requests that you visit his web site and please refrain from copying the cartoon within this thread. Thanks!

Here is a video report on the controversy over whether South African teenager Caster Semenya is actually a female - important because she just won the Gold Medal for the 800-meter World Championship race in Berlin. She won the race by a massive 2.5 seconds. A "gender test" has been ordered. At the end of the video, Semenya was asked directly about the accusation she was "born a man": "The South African teenager caught up in the gender-test flap has received her gold medal for winning the 800-meter win at the world championships. Caster Semenya won by a huge margin...

<p>The gold medal favourite in tonight's women's 800m World Athletics Championships race is today facing claims that she is really a man.</p> <p>South African Caster Semenya, 18, is set to race in tonight's final in Berlin after sailing through a semi-final on Monday in her first major international sporting competition.</p>

The transsexual man who attacked a priest at St. Babila in Milan Milan, Italy, Jul 29, 2009 / 04:12 pm (CNA).- Police in Milan detained a Brazilian transsexual on Sunday after he stripped naked in front of the altar during Mass and began to attack the priest who was presiding over the Mass. The incident occurred at the Church of St. Babila at the 8:30am Mass on Sunday. According to ANSA news agency, the subject entered the church and approached the altar, where he stripped naked. “Afterwards he took a pole used by the sacristan to close doors and approached the celebrating...

Cher is going to get a son - after her daughter declared she is having a sex change. The singer's only child, Chastity Bono, started the gender-swap process earlier this year and has declared she wants to be called 'Chaz'. The 40-year-old came out as a lesbian more than two decades ago. Referring to his client as a 'he, Chastity's publicist Howard Bragman said: 'Yes, it's true - Chaz, after many years of consideration, has made the courageous decision to honour his true identity. 'He is proud of his decision and grateful for the support and respect that has already...

Darnell Nash - a k a Serina "Sexy Slay" Gibbs. An Ohio man who cast an illegal early ballot after being caught registering to vote several times with ACORN is a longtime scammer who was arrested last year for fraud - as a woman. The bizarre tale of Darnell Nash - a k a Serina "Sexy Slay" Gibbs - came to light after Cuyahoga County officials accused him of voter fraud and this week turned him/her in to prosecutors. It turns out Nash, 24, who has a criminal record as a man, is a transsexual escort who claims to make...

A former Army Special Forces commander passed over for a job as a terrorism analyst at the Library of Congress because he was in the process of becoming a she won a discrimination lawsuit on Friday.U.S. District Judge James Robinson ruled that the Library of Congress discriminated against Diane Schroer of Alexandria, Va., by not giving her the job after the former David Schroer disclosed he would start becoming Diane before beginning the new job. "The evidence establishes that the Library was enthusiastic about hiring David Schroer -- until she disclosed her transsexuality," Robinson wrote in his decision. "The Library...

A former state employee living as a transgender woman on Friday filed a federal discrimination lawsuit against leading Georgia lawmakers and the supervisor who fired her. Vandiver Elizabeth Glenn, a former employee in the General Assembly Office of Legislative Counsel, was fired after she told supervisors she no would no longer come to work as a man. The lawsuit names the office's director, Sewell Brumby, House Speaker Glenn Richardson (R-Hiram), Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle and Senate President Pro tem Eric Johnson (R-Savannah). Glenn is represented by lawyers with Lambda Legal, a gay rights advocacy group. According to the lawsuit, Brumby...

Female transsexuals may have their genes to blame for feeling like they belong to the wrong sex. Scientists identified a specific gene variant in female-to-male transsexuals that meant they had been exposed to higher levels of sex hormones during their early development. Almost half the female-to-male transsexuals in the study carried the gene variant.

Karen Deamons wants to use the women's locker room, like a normal woman. Deamons is transsexual - she presents herself and lives as a woman. But because she has not yet had sex-change surgery, Cleveland officials insist that she change clothes in the men's locker room of the indoor pool at Cudell Recreation Center, after they received complaints from a few women who said Deamons made them uncomfortable. For more than a year, Deamons, 53, followed the mandate. But now, after an embarrassing question from a boy in the men's locker room, she's fighting the city. She filed a gender...

Confused by the title? Confused by the concept of a "man" giving birth? Confused in general about how society let this nonsense happen? Well, you're never going to be as confused as the baby boy of the pregnant "man"! See why in this cartoon from "Geeks On Caffeine."

In today's gender bending society, would it really be an honor for a transsexual, pregnant man to name his/her child after you? In this comic, Joe of "Geeks On Caffeine" has this dubious honor bestowed upon him...

Heard about the pregnant "dude" on Oprah? Well he's in "Geeks On Caffeine" and...uh...well, the title of this post pretty much says it all. Further evidence of the decline of Western civilization? A sign of the apocalypse? Or just another story about a nutbag that expects the rest of the world to buy into personal delusion? YOU MAKE THE CALL!!

A business owner has to worry about many "groups" with a social agenda. After coffee shop owner Joe Black had a run-in with the Transsexual Mafia, the next group with a social bone to pick made its presence known!

The title pretty much says it all. Check out the toon!!

Sometimes it's just so durn easy to get confused when you're having a conversation with a transsexual...

You know what happens to those who cross the mafia, right? They get whacked, rubbed out, erased and so on. Well with the transsexual mafia, you wind up at the bottom of the river swimming with the fishes in a pair of cement...

You don't know where it will happen. You don't know when it will happen. You don't know who it will happen to. But if you own a business or believe in conservative societal norms, at some point you will feel the impact when the TRANSSEXUAL MAFIA STRIKES!!!!