LAT's Transsexual Sportswriter Dies

LAT's Transsexual Sportswriter Dies

Published: November 30, 2009 @ 6:55 am
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By the Los Angeles Times

Mike Penner, a longtime Los Angeles Times sportswriter who made headlines in 2007 when he announced that he was transsexual, has died. He was 52.

Penner was pronounced dead Friday evening at Brotman Medical Center in Culver City, a Los Angeles County coroner's official said.

The cause of death has not been determined but was believed to be suicide.

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