Tranny Sports Writer Becomes “An Hero”

Mike Penner, a sports writer for the Los Angeles Times suffered a mental breakdown in 2007 and decided that after 50 years of life as a man, he really wanted to cut his dick off and wear frilly things. He changed his name to “Christine Daniels,” started hormone injections, and bought a new wardrobe. He later changed his mind about cutting off his genitalia and simply went back to work as a man, pretending he had never announced that he was a tranny. But he became an hero yesterday, and in the process, committed a hate crime by killing a dirty tranny. No motive yet, but I’m sure it either had something to do with his persistent baldness or his ass looked too fat in everything he wore.

From NYDailyNews here:

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. 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.

“I am a transsexual sportswriter. It has taken more than 40 years, a million tears and hundreds of hours of soul-wrenching therapy for me to work up the courage to type those words.”

He blogged about his transitioning experience for several months, then took a leave of absence.

Last year, he suddenly returned to the newsroom as a man and began using his old byline. Penner, who was taking female hormones but never had sex change surgery, didn’t publicly explain his decision.

Penner wrote about the tremendous level of support he received both professionally and in his personal life. But his real problem was likely deep depression and childhood sexual abuse, and what he really needed was psychotherapy, not a sex change. But because he lived in politically correct California, and because its taboo to suggest that some transvestites may need therapy, he was never given the true support he needed. Now he is “An Hero” to the gay community.

On the Shakesville Blog here, commenters are already blaming society for driving Penner to commit suicide. Which makes sense I guess because those bastards in Los Angeles are clearly homophobic, bigots, and intolerant because they are all so conservative there. Couldn’t possibly be because he had a mental illness. Nosiree.