ABC News Producer who Became a Transgender ‘Woman’ Decides he is a Man Again

Ben Johnson
LifeSiteNews
August 6, 2013

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It’s a woman’s prerogative to change her mind, but “Dawn” Ennis is changing much more.

In May, ABC News producer and editor Don Ennis said that he was really “Dawn Stacey Ennis,” a woman trapped inside his male body. Three months later, he has decided he is Don again and wants his buddies in the newsroom to forget his coming to work in heels.

“I’m asking all of you who accepted me as a transgender to now understand: I was misdiagnosed,” he said in an e-mail to friends last Friday. He said he would be a man “again, now and forever. And it appears I’m not transgender after all.”

The note sounded much different than his announcement in May that he had embraced his inner female, “Dawn Stacey Ennis.” The Facebook post – which also said he was ending his 17-year marriage to wife Wendy and moving out of the home they shared with their three children – said his first sex-change was irrevocable.

“This is not a game of dress-up, or make-believe,” he said at the time. “It is my affirmation of who I now am and what I must do to be happy.”

Ennis said his mother gave him hormone treatments so he could continue his career as a child commercial actor, and he had looked more like a woman than a man for some time. Except for his balding pate.

ABC News President Ben Sherwood wrote Don a note supporting his change, and his colleagues brought him flowers.

He began to wear female clothing to work and take hormone treatments, as well as scout for a book deal to describe his change. “I’m looking forward to telling my story when I’m ready,” he said.

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