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Christina Kahrl is one of the co-founders of Baseball Prospectus. She is the former executive editor of the think tank's website, BaseballProspectus.com,Kahrl, Christina. "Changing Teams," BaseballProspectus.com, April 26, 2007. the former managing editor for their annual publication, former writer and editor for ESPN, and is currently sports editor of the San Francisco Chronicle. She is a member of the Baseball Writers' Association of America.
Kahrl is an activist on civil rights issues for the transgender community in her hometown of Chicago and a member of the Equality Illinois board of directors.Dave McKenna, "Baseball Columnist Switches Gender, Keeps Career," Washington City Paper, August 26-September 1, 2005. The story of her coming out as a transgender sportswriter in 2003 was part of a GLAADThe GLAAD Awards: Outstanding TV Journalism - Newsmagazine GLAAD.org award-nominated segment entitled "Transitions" on HBO's Real Sports that aired in 2010. Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel, Episode 156 Synopsis HBO.com
After the launch of BaseballProspectus.com in 1996, of which she was a founding member, she contributed a regular column entitled "Transaction Analysis," listing and analyzing the transactions (player trades, contract signings, promotions and demotions) by all Major League Baseball teams for the site. In 2011, she kicked off a new standalone opinion and argument column for the site entitled "Purpose Pitches."Kahrl, Christina. "Purpose Pitches" archive, BaseballProspectus.com She was a co-editor of nine of the Baseball Prospectus annual volumes of baseball statistics and analysis.For a list, see Baseball Prospectus.
Kahrl has also written for SportsIllustrated.com, ESPN.com, the New York Sun, Salon.com, Slate, Playboy, and the Washington Blade, and was an associate editor of The ESPN Pro Football Encyclopedia.
In 2008, Kahrl was accepted as a member of the Baseball Writers' Association of America and thus became eligible to vote on Major League Baseball post-season awards and nominees for the National Baseball Hall of Fame. She voted for the American League Rookie of the Year in 2009Kahrl, Christina. "Voting for Real: AL Rookie of the Year," BaseballProspectus.com, 16 November 2009 and for the National League Manager of the Year in 2010.Kahrl, Christina. "Voting for Real: The NL Manager of the Year Award," BaseballProspectus.com, 18 November 2010 Reflecting on the meaning of her election, Kahrl wrote, "While I expect to still write about transactions, I really want to try and breathe new life back into the game story as an art form, and perhaps in my conceit try to take pages from Damon Runyon and Ring Lardner and Pete Palmer and Keith Woolner to provide something old and something new, all at once."King Kaufman, "BBWAA Votes in Prospectus, Neyer, Law," Salon.com, December 11, 2008.
In April 2011,Kahrl, Christina, "Purpose Pitches: A New Delivery," BaseballProspectus.com, 1 April 2011 Kahrl announced that she would be joining ESPN.com to write and edit, teaming up with David Schoenfield in penning the "SweetSpot" blog, which provides a sabermetrics-driven analysis on the goings-on in baseball.
On November 10, 2016, Kahrl announced she has been promoted to MLB Senior Editor at ESPN and will be relocating to ESPN Headquarters in Connecticut.
Kahrl became sports editor of The San Francisco Chronicle in March 2021.
In 2014 Kahrl was inducted into the Chicago Gay and Lesbian Hall of Fame.
As an activist and board member for Equality Illinois, Kahrl has been actively involved in an effort to curb police harassment of transgender Chicagoans, and has helped launch the Trans-Friendly Bathroom InitiativeThe T-Friendly Bathroom Initiative, T-Friendly Bathrooms Wiki with fellow activists from Genderqueer Chicago.Barlow, Gary. "New initiative highlights T-friendly businesses, Gay Chicago Magazine, 20 February 2011 She has also helped organize the public observation of Transgender Day of Remembrance in Chicago. She has also discussed the nature of transgenderism at the Chicago History Museum, stating, "You have to explain to people that, no, this (being transgender) does not mean that you are supergay, although it's sweet of you to say so. Forging acceptance in the face of inevitable confusion and concern is the diplomatic mission of a lifetime, for each and every transsexual."Kahrl, Christina. "Sexicon" speech text, Facebook.com, 2 February 2011 On November 8, 2013 it was announced that she had been named to GLAAD's Board of Directors.
Kahrl, who identifies as transgender and bisexual, married Charley Wanamaker in 2014.
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