GLAAD announced its nominees for the 19th annual GLAAD Media Awards yesterday in Sundance. We've included the entire list after the jump, but we'd like to point out that trans issues and people have a special presence:
…Material based on transgender issues has earned a number of nominations this year — most notably the work of columnist Christine Daniels in the LA Times, nominated as Outstanding Newspaper Columnist. Daniels received a fair bit of media attention in April 2007 as male sportswriter Mike Penner, who revealed in a surprising column that he was a transsexual male and would be undergoing a sex-change operation. Penner returned to the LAT — and her sports column — as Christine Daniels after the surgery and now blogs about her transition the blog, "A Woman In Progress." Similarly-themed articles in Newsweek, the St. Petersburg Times, and Salon and on TV on MSNBC, the Tyra Banks and Oprah Winfrey shows, 20/20 and the now-defunct Paula Zahn Live on CNN were also honored.
If only GLAAD honcho Neil Giuliano and his gays were running Congress, huh?
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Everyone and their fairy godmother's got an opinion on the ENDA/GENDA political showdown, not least of all our trans allies.
Los Angeles Times' Christine Daniels, the all-star sportswriter once called Mike Prenner, spilled some ink against Nancy Pelosi and Barney Frank's political foul. Using a sports analogy, Daniels writes:
The basketball expression for it is "low-bridge." It is the dirtiest foul in the sport, the act of suddenly taking out a player's legs as he or she leaps for a rebound, pass or jump shot. It's a cheap and devious move, in that it may look spontaneous but is almost always premeditated — and almost always a prelude to a fight.That's what happened to the transgender community on Sept. 26. We were low-bridged. By — of all people — Massachusetts Rep. Barney Frank and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Did Daniels get claws implanted, as well?
No doubt Christine Daniels celebrated David Beckham's goal last night. The Los Angeles Times' sportswoman - formerly known as sportsman Mike Penner - recently told NPR's Day To Day that David's LA coming out marked her coming out as a woman. IThe British soccer player was Daniels' first interview as a woman.
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