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An Essay On Being A Transitioning Transexual Is Very Popular Story

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This is pretty fascinating - an account of a sports writer who changed genders.

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Excerpt: "The revelation drew an enormous response — with the highly personal 823-word essay becoming, by mid-evening, one of the most heavily viewed stories on latimes.com in the last year, with about half a million page views."

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    Reply#1 - Sat Apr 28, 2007 1:09 PM EDT
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    Here is the actual column.

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      Reply#2 - Tue May 1, 2007 6:15 AM EDT
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