The complicated story of the death of Los Angeles Times sports writer Mike Penner--who famously transitioned to Christine Daniels in 2007 and then apparently detransitioned back to Penner in 2008--raises complicated questions as  the media is grappling with telling the story of one of its own, but also the complexity of talking about transgender people. (more...)

"We are born with this, we fight it as long as we can, and in the end it wins."

— LAT Sportswriter Mike Penner , explaining to his readers that he was transgendered and was embarking on the process to transition to a woman, Christine Daniels. Penner went through that surgery and wrote under the byline Christine Daniels, including the LAT blog "A Woman In Progress"; recently he switched back to the Mike Penner byline. On Saturday, the LAT announced that he had been found dead in his home in Los Angeles, of an apparent suicide. He was 52. (more...)