death_date birth_place other_names article_title birth_date employer name occupation
27 november 2009 inglewood , california christine daniels mike penner
 10 october 1957 '' los angeles times '' mike penner sportswriter
mike penner

mike penner -lrb- october 10 , 1957 -- november 27 , 2009 -rrb- was a sports writer for the `` los angeles times '' .
penner self-identified as being `` transsexual '' in a 2007 column and returned from a vacation writing with the name christine daniels , before resuming his self-identification as male and original name in 2008 .
in 2009 he died by suicide .
