LA Times On Christine Daniels: "Public Triumph, Private Torment"

[Shana A]

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LA Times On Christine Daniels: "Public Triumph, Private Torment"
by: Autumn Sandeen
Sun Mar 28, 2010 at 15:24:50 PM EDT

Thumbnail link to HBO's Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel's segment on Transgender Sportswriters PromoHBO's Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel segment on HBO that debuted on March 16th. The segment was on transgender sportswriters, focusing a great deal on Christine Daniels.

One of the transgender sportswriters interviewed for the segment stated that when she heard that Christine had detransitioned to Mike Penner, she feared Christine would experience death by suicide. At the time, so was I; so were many trans activists I know.

[GinaDouglas]

I just found out about this, and I am heartbroken.

I was such a fan, and she had such a forum.

I didn't know she detransitioned, which is bad enough.  How could she do that from her forum, with no explanation?

But she committed suicide too.  Which breaks my heart, that she was suffering that bad.

She went from being a shining example, to being another reason for people to tell transsexauls that we are nuts.