Christine Daniels: A Love Story New piece on CD in the LA Weekly
By Jennifer Finney Boylan | Published: August 21, 2010
http://www.jenniferboylan.net/2010/08/21/christine-daniels-a-love-story-new-piece-on-cd-in-the-la-weekly/Here's another very thoughtful, and lengthy, story published in the L.A. Times Weekly on the sad fate of Christine Daniels. (Christine, nee Mike Penner, was a sportswriter for the L.A. Times who transitioned very publicly at the paper, with the general support of that paper and its readers; in time, however, she went back to being Mike. She took her own life last year.)
This one sees her story as a "tragic love story," the love story being Christine's marriage to her wife Lisa. Thesis here is that the loss of that marriage was too hard for Christine to bear, and that she de-transitioned back to Mike in hopes of salvaging the relationship. This article would have a lot more teeth, if you ask me, if the author had managed to interview Lisa, the wife in question, although it's clear enough that she wanted her privacy and wasn't in the mood to muddy the waters at this late date by speaking publicly. I respect that decision– living all of this in the bright light of the public eye is pretty hard; it's one reason Deirdre/Grace has generally not had much interest in speaking publicly about matters that are, almost by definition, private.
