Readers of National Review may remember this trans activist from his altercation with Kellie Jay Keen at the NCAA swim championships.
At the NCAA swim finals Kellie Jay Keen takes on transgender activist who lived nearly 50 years as a man, fathered three children, and now says “I’m a mother.” pic.twitter.com/7vPadNbW2g
— Madeleine Kearns (@madeleinekearns) March 21, 2022
His name is Dawn (formerly Don) Ennis. He lived 49 years unambiguously as a man, marrying a woman and fathering three children, before deciding he wanted to play-act being a woman. The New York Daily News reported how, three months after leaving his wife in 2014, “Dawn showed up at work as Don again,” later claiming to have “suffered from amnesia,” and accusing “his wife of dressing him in a wig and creating a fake ID card with the name ‘Dawn’ on it.” Later, Don went back to calling himself Dawn. His ex-wife has since died. As if the poor woman didn’t suffer enough, he now claims that he is their children’s mother.
Ennis is a freelance writer for Forbes, the Daily Beast, and a number of other publications. In a recent piece for the Los Angeles Blade (later published in Forbes), Ennis targeted Chloe Cole — a teen detransitioner who had a double mastectomy at age 15 — claiming that “while there have been exceptions for some 15, 16 and 17-year-olds, most surgeons won’t operate on anyone younger than 18.” (Forbes has since retracted the piece.)
The Libs of TikTok Twitter account highlighted the absurdity of this, writing: “‘Minors aren’t getting “gender affirming” surgery except for when they are.’ Just incredible journalism.”
Ennis then changed his Twitter cover photo to a collage of pictures of Libs of TikTok, Chloe Cole, and of the American journalist Andy Ngo having just been assaulted, under a banner that read: “I condone any/all violence.”
Dawn Ennis, a freelance trans reporter who contributes to @Forbes, @thedailybeast & others, has put up a new banner suggesting violence against @libsoftiktok, @ChoooCole & myself. Her text reads, “I condone any/all violence” & includes photos of Cole & I. https://t.co/mzVdqo5P63 pic.twitter.com/YyLLhX9Ojn
— Andy Ngô 🏳️🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) September 15, 2022
Ennis has since changed the banner to something else. After this post was first published, Ennis reached out to say that the “violence” quote in fact came from a Twitter DM sent by Chloe Cole, which appeared to confuse the word “condone” for “condemn.” Ennis claims to have shared the original quote in retaliation for criticism from Cole and others, though the attribution was not clear in the header photo at the time.
Still, the double standard here is incredible. Ennis posted something that appeared to incite violence towards an Asian American and two women. Other straight white men have been canceled for much less.