GenderLife Forum: The Information Exchange

This morning I inadvertently clicked on my bookmark for the blog of LA Times columnist Christine Daniels, the TS woman who transitioned very publicly, and found that the link was dead. So I went to the pages of the Times' columnists and saw she was no longer there. Her last column was on April 4th, and a cursory Google search shows no info about her. Has anybody heard what happened to her? Did she quit? Was she fired?

gosh...that's weird. i had a very nice email correspondence with her for a few months...she and i are both journalists and she gave me some wonderful advice about preparing to come out and how to handle professional stuff. we'd lost touch in the past three or four months, though. hope she turns up somewhere...and will pass on any info i might come acrosss

Is this the article you looking for Old Mike, new Christine

Wanna find out ? Lets ask the damn times.


LA TIMES CONTACT FORM

Thanks, Storm, but that's from a year ago. I corresponded with her last year but haven't heard from her in awhile. Then I found that her blog was totally gone and her last byline at the Times was over two months ago and she's no longer listed among their columnists. No articles about her leaving, either.

She has accepted a settlement.
It includes a gag order.
And a non-compete clause.
Whatever story is here, it isn't now.

I profess no inside knowledge. But the Tribune Co. has either bought her or capped her. The former being muuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuch more likely.

I think it's time to make a little noise. A gag order ? Isn't that illegal ? I think it's time to hammer a bit on the LA Times.

I just wrote the Times.

The LATimes is hiding the fact that they fired Christine Daniels . At one time touted as an the on job transition the LATimes has quietly exited her . Her column and her blog are both gone. We are owed the story and the truth and a group of us are going to start digging to find out the details. We will start by contacting other papers less interested in protecting the LATimes.

Thanks

Now .... who is the LATimes biggest rival ?

I wrote the Times earlier today, myself. If not answer by tomorrow afternoon I'll then move on to the Reader's Representative for the Times. I wrote Christine directly last year, I'm going to look for her email addy in a minute. Hopefully I still have it.

"No inside knowledge" meaning that you're guessing that she was fired, accepted a severance with a gag order?

Unfortunately I can't find any of the emails I traded with her last year...

With all due respect Darlie--and respect IS due--not a chance on the matter without turning up a willing and pissed Christine.

The LA Times is Tribune Co. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribune_Company

All your base are belong to us!!!!! Muah-ha-ha!

If she has been gagged then turning her up would do no good Amelie. I'm fascinated since in my few short moments searching I have found some rather disturbing comments by other sports writers. It fuels my ire in a way that makes me more determined. You must know her to have know there was a settlement. Or is that rumor ?

Oh, and I've been known to do some really creative things. You might be surprised.

I wish I had saved her email now. Maybe in my laptop...

P.S. You're right about what some other sportswriters are saying about her, like this asshole SportsByBrooks

Maybe the job email account is still active?

christine.daniels@latimes.com

Your right also, the writer who wrote that article is an asshole!!!

I doubt her email is still active if she's been fired, Storm. I just sent an email to the Reader's Rep, a woman with whom I've corresponded since the Gwen Araujo days. Hopefully an answer of some kind will soon be forthcoming.

LOL, Sports By Brooks thinks she's not attractive? Awesome. If only she'd sprung for implants to get some H-cups, amirite? What a d-bag.

Nice mixing up of the t-words, too. Before you know it, we'll all be transmissions.

Sport Blogs?

Blogs are the realm of bigotry. And often by journalists. You should see the things they write about Muslims, Blacks, gays and Jews for example.

Since blogs have much more freedom, you'll find in them stuff that no decent paper would ever publish. But it cuts all ways.

Them Internets exist for piracy, porn, hate and gore.

Marci,

That's not true! Why, without the internets how would I pira... err... okay, well where would I get my por... err... okay, but this one time I saw a picture of a guy who got hit by a semi and... err...

Okay, you win. By the way, do you happen to have Lands of Lore 1 around? (Joking. I have it, of course.)

By the way, Christine is still a writer for the LATimes. No explanation why her blog is down but , apparently she got a two month vacation .


http://www.latimes.com/sports/columnists/


Amelie , you tribune fruitcake ! Settlement, gag order. Huge sucker.

Now see, when I noticed she stopped posting or communicating, I said to myself "well, she hit that point where we sorta gotta just get the head right 'cause there's a lot of crap to learn in a short time".

I didn't think anything nasty of it -- I just figured she was taking some much needed time now (what with the olympics coming up and all)...

Awwww, thats not very nice, Darlie! I thought I made it plain enough that my comment was mere conjecture (and a wee bit facetious, besides).

Conjecture that a veteran journalist has quite sufficient contacts to get her story out, if so wishing. Any change in her employment would involve sufficient inducements to make it satisfactory to her. Whatever the story, the fact that it isn't a news story, is because Christine wishes it not.

BTW, this link is dated June 8th. See #4.

Yes, June 8th, 2007.

I take issue with her statement that "Hormones + legal name change + setting the stage for a new life = happiness, no doubt about that. Money plays a massive role in that, which is one reason so many transsexual wait until their mid-40s to begin their transitions." Somehow I don't see "Mike" sitting there at a sports desk for 23 years waiting for "his" savings get to a level where "Okay, I have enough money now, time to transition." While the point about the cost of transition is valid, it's a misleading answer. It is the social stigma against transition, plus the transsexual person's internal denial, that IMO makes one wait until middle age to transition.

Oh my! How time flies! I didn't even notice that because I NEVER would have thought this story more than a year old already.

P.S. Yeah, the comment is suspect. But were I to "take issue" with every improbable but convenient self-justification of this sort, my fingers would be worn down to the second knuckle.

Sure is dated June 8,2007 - a year ago. How is that relevant to what has transpired in the last 12 months? Back then it was based on 2 months worth of events which by now are ancient history.

http://www.latimes.com/sports/college/ucla/la-sp-sound28mar28,0,84178.column

March 28th

http://www.latimes.com/sports/college/ucla/la-columnist-daniels,0,5924028.columnist

General listing this year.

April 4th is the last entry I can find for her, and an April 18th column by Larry Stewart notes that she is on vacation.

Edit: Came across this very saddening news, that explains much:

http://www.legacy.com/LATIMES/Obituaries.asp?Page=LifeStory&PersonId=111395232

On June 7th, her mother passed away. Services were held on June 12th, 2008.