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Sportswriter comes out as a transexual

by Lyndsey Darcangelo

From the LA Times:

During my 23 years with The Times’ sports department, I have held a wide variety of roles and titles. Tennis writer. Angels beat reporter. Olympics writer. Essayist. Sports media critic. NFL columnist. Recent keeper of the Morning Briefing flame.

Today I leave for a few weeks’ vacation, and when I return, I will come back in yet another incarnation.

As Christine. READ MORE

I know that writing can be therapeutic, but WOW - coming out to thousands of readers most of whom are straight sports watching sterotypical men takes ALOT of moxie. I hope they don’t make her cover the WNBA now iinstead of football. That would be kind of insulting.

Go Mike … er, I mean Christine!


Posted in News, Sports on April 26th, 2007

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4 Responses to “Sportswriter comes out as a transexual”

  1. Deb Says:
    April 26th, 2007 at 4:15 pm

    Wow! I’m going to have to go to the LA Times more often. Best wishes to Christine as she makes her transition.

  2. Mark Jabo Says:
    April 26th, 2007 at 4:20 pm

    I agree, Lyndsey, this was an amazingly courageous step for anyone, let alone a long-time sportswriter.

    Kind of ironic that Christine has more balls than most of the narrow-minded, rock-throwing “guy’s guys” that I’ve seen commenting on the topic.

  3. Emma Says:
    April 28th, 2007 at 9:07 am

    I’m going to say it, to: Wow!

  4. badthing Says:
    May 3rd, 2007 at 9:36 pm

    I say to Christine:

    I have great admiration for you, my dear, and I wish you a lifetime of beauty and joy. I also admire your boss Randy Harvey for being the person that HE is.

    Yes, you DO possess not only courage, but so many other positive personality traits, that you should be proud of who you are and face your life with confidence!

    I believe that by doing this for yourself, not only will you be walking a better path of your OWN, but you are assisting those who are presently struggling with their decisions to do the same.

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