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Title: 'It Stuns Me' {Christine Daniels}
Post by: LostInTime on May 13, 2007, 07:55:32 AM
Post by: LostInTime on May 13, 2007, 07:55:32 AM
Newsweek (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18615905/site/newsweek/)
By Lorraine Ali
NEWSWEEK: You came out as transgender in your final column under the Mike Penner byline. That was incredibly courageous—though pretty shocking for most of your longtime readers. Was that your idea?
Christine Daniels: There was no way in the world I wanted to do that column. I tried talking [the LA Times] out of it. I didn't want to make this public. Two weeks before that column ran I was thinking of quitting the Times. I talked to editors in other sections—the Calendar and Image sections—and I was watching the Susan Stanton case from afar. [Stanton, city manager in Largo, Fla., for 17 years, was fired after it became known she was transitioning.]
By Lorraine Ali
NEWSWEEK: You came out as transgender in your final column under the Mike Penner byline. That was incredibly courageous—though pretty shocking for most of your longtime readers. Was that your idea?
Christine Daniels: There was no way in the world I wanted to do that column. I tried talking [the LA Times] out of it. I didn't want to make this public. Two weeks before that column ran I was thinking of quitting the Times. I talked to editors in other sections—the Calendar and Image sections—and I was watching the Susan Stanton case from afar. [Stanton, city manager in Largo, Fla., for 17 years, was fired after it became known she was transitioning.]