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Pioneering Trans Sportswriter for Los Angeles Times Has Died

Sports post by Anna Clark on November 28, 2009 - 2:33pm; tagged journalism, media, sports, trans, transgender.
Christine DanielsSuch sad news today: veteran Los Angeles Times sportswriter Christine Daniels was found dead today in her home. Suicide is the suspected cause. She was 52 years old.

Daniels made national headlines when in 2007 she announced in that she was transitioning from male to female. Then under the byline of Mike Penner, she wrote her groundbreaking sports column:
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