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April 27, 2007
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Mike Penner’s Announcement Draws Huge Traffic To latimes.com

L.A. Times writer Mike Penner’s column on Thursday, in which he revealed that he is a transsexual and will become Christine Daniels, by mid-evening was “one of the most heavily viewed stories on latimes.com in the last year, with about half a million page views,” according to James Rainey of the L.A. TIMES. By early evening, readers had posted nearly 1,000 comments that were “overwhelmingly positive.” The L.A. Times turned down interview requests with ABC’s “GMA,” ESPN Radio and CNN’s “Larry King Live,” among others, “on the writer’s behalf.” Daniels: “Writing that piece, which I didn’t initially want to write, ended up becoming one of the best things I have ever done. And a day I dreaded all my life has ended up being one of the best days I’ve ever had.” Rainey notes Daniels will be writing a blog about Southern California sports at latimes.com, which also plans to give her space “to write about the experience of a gender transformation under the tentative heading ‘Woman In Progress’” (L.A. TIMES, 4/27).

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