Celebrity, Role Models and the Sportswriter
Filed by dentedbluemercedes
August 23, 2010
http://dentedbluemercedes.wordpress.com/2010/08/23/celebrity-role-models-and-the-sportswriter/LA Weekly has a very long, thorough and heartbreaking look at the story of Christine Daniels / Mike Penner that is worth reading. The article's not always comfortable to read.
I'm not going to analyze all of it here, but one thing it touched on in a few places was the effect that "trans celebrity" had on Christine:
Daniels heard from so many voices in those weeks that four days before her piece appeared, she lashed out. In an e-mail to Winter, she griped that she felt "overwhelmed by everything and everyone. I feel as if I am being used as a pawn by the trans community (and maybe the Times as well). I have been close to tears many times. ... I am flat-out exhausted."
