LGBT community remembers the transgender sportswriter

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LGBT community remembers the transgender sportswriter
Outsports.com
By Cyd Zeigler jr.
20 January, 2010


http://www.outsports.com/os/index.php/component/content/article/56-news/290-christine-daniels-by-any-other-name


"A rose by any other name is still a rose. Christine, by any other name, is still the most caring, kindest, sweetest, most giving, most talented person I've ever known."

Those words began the eulogy for Christine Daniels last Saturday at the Metropolitan Community Church in Hollywood. They've echoed in my head since Suzy Horn, a close friend of Christine, uttered them.

It's been over six weeks since Mike Penner ended his own life, and over a year since he ended the life of Christine Daniels, the woman he became before becoming Mike again. The family had held a private memorial service in December, to which none of the members of Christine's church were invited. Some in the media criticized Metropolitan Community Church for having a memorial service for Christine when the family had had a service for Mike, and since last we'd all heard she had transitioned back to Mike.