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KatHighsmith’s Substack · Aug 5, 2026

What Happens After a Father and Son Choose Lies?

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Kat Highsmith · KatHighsmith’s Substack

By now, we should all know that hindsight is still 20/20…but are we learning anything as we continue to watch people decimate their lives due to a cultish agenda?

Previous posts of mine have focused on the havoc the “trans” leviathan wreaks on society and especially on families, which often suffer when parents or children fall victim to the intense propaganda exerted upon us.

The wreckage can most clearly be seen in families like those of Amanda “Rowan” Jetté Knox, a woman on testosterone whose cross-dressing ex-husband and cross-dressing son also happened to be born in the wrong bodies.

Amanda’s life is discussed in detail in this post.

A similar example is Corey and Erica Maison, who have suffered terribly at the hands of this perverse fraud. This is especially true for Corey, whose life path has veered inexorably towards the deviancy which has always been part and parcel of this scam.

That bleak saga is explored in the post below.

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Apr 16

Everyone has heard that hindsight is 20/20.

These tragedies demonstrate how people suffer when they are affirmed in lies rather than told the truth, and the topic of this post continues in that vein.

This is the story a man named Don Ennis and the mayhem he unleashed when he announced he was a woman. The nonsense didn’t end there though, and the first casualties of his selfishness, as always, were his wife and children.

Don became somewhat nationally known when he debuted as the first publicly cross-dressing fetishistic news producer in 2013 when he worked for ABC.

He also went a bit viral when he attended William “Lia” Thomas’ swim meet in 2022 to report on his cheating, where he called Kellie-Jay Keen a dog because she dared criticize male entitlement such as his.

We hear stories all the time about how vulnerable and marginalized these sad-sack men are, and yet when they’re observed in real life, they’re unabashedly aggressive and vitriolic, especially towards women. I wonder why?

Where did this man come from? What did he do to his family? Why was he allowed to do it, and how are they faring now?

Strap yourself in because this is a wild ride.

Donald Ennis was born and raised in New York, and he claims to have worked as a child actor from age 4 to 17.

He has also claimed he “modeled as a girl” starting at 12 alongside future stars Brooke Shields and Sarah Jessica Parker, and his mother fed him hormones to prevent his puberty:

Ms. Ennis suffers from a “hormone imbalance” as a result of her mother feeding her estrogen as a child in order to halt puberty, believing it would ruin Ms. Ennis’ career as a child actor, The New York Post reports.

This resulted in Ms. Ennis eventually developing breasts and a lifelong medical condition which she says doctors have been unable to explain of cure.

He has never produced any real evidence to prove any of these insane statements.

Don is 62 years old since he was born in 1964, so he would have been 12 in 1976, and he swears his mother gave him “high-test” birth control pills for four years in the guise of Flintstones vitamins.

How on earth would he figure this out in his 40s? What proof did he have? Why hasn’t Don produced pictures from those photo shoots to the public to prove this?

The Dutch Protocol was developed by doctors in the Netherlands to prevent the physical development of children because adult cross-dressing men expressed deep anger at their inability to pass after puberty, but this practice only emerged in the late 1980s.

How did a non-medical doctor in New York figure out which medications, and in what doses, to give to her son in the 1970s, and how were those obtained? Wouldn’t his father notice the physical changes before the photo shoots and say something? Wouldn’t his teachers notice and say something? It appears nobody did for years.

Don has never really explained this in detail or if he received any medical treatment to address the major issues he would have suffered from years of birth control pills as a teenaged male. He just went through puberty at 18, and that’s that? If this makes sense to you, I have a crypto scheme for you to invest in—don’t worry, it’s not a scam.

It’s understandable why he would lie about this, and cross-dressers do it all the time. They claim to have a genetic issue or a DSD of some kind, so the general public feels sorry for them since it’s a medical issue rather than a fetishistic perversion, which means they can’t help it.

Don would be asked to provide proof if he made a claim about a DSD, and he cannot provide anything, so he made up a lie about being fed hormones as a kid because he very cynically hoped it would trigger our sympathy and subsequent acceptance.

Even if it were true, he’s still just a man in a wig because the hormones didn’t make him a woman. He doesn’t have a hormonal imbalance, or any other objective medical issue. He has a misogyny fetish and nothing less or more than that.

Don and his wife Wendy were college sweethearts, but he dumped her after graduation:

Upon graduation, I broke her heart by ending our romance. That was the first time my name changed.

I went from “Don” to being known as “Slime” among her family and friends. And I guess I deserved it.

But you know what's interesting about slime? It never ever really goes away, no matter how hard you try.

Just like love.

He has the self-awareness to admit he’s slime, and Wendy should have taken the hint. Ten years after he dumped her, they reconnected and got married.

Don worked as a producer for ABC News while Wendy was a special education teacher; they lived in Connecticut and raised their children, Sean, Sophie, and Liam.

It seemed like things were going well, but Don had to throw a wrench into it all, so he declared himself a woman in 2013, the year “gender dysphoria” replaced “gender identity disorder” in the DSM, when he was 49 years old.

His children are pictured above at the time their father’s selfish declaration was made, when they were 15, 11, and 7.

His real name is Don. Guess what he selected as his nom de troon.

He chose Dawn.

Yes, that’s right. He chose Dawn, a homophone for the name he used before he put on his wig.

Now, let’s address this.

TERFs have been told many times that getting deadnamed is basically the literal murder and genocide of these men, like the Holodomor combined with the Hiroshima atom bomb along with the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami all wrapped into one.

Why would he pick a name that sounds exactly like his non-wigged male name? Would this not feel like getting deadnamed every single time? He could at least have tried Donna, so it wouldn’t be an exact homophone. Then again, Dylan Mulvaney didn’t even change his name at all, so who cares.

Either way, he’s still a man. He knows that deep down inside, so maybe this is his way of indicating he knows this whole thing is merely a joke anyway…because it is. Well played, Donald!

He insisted this was for real though:

“Please understand: This is not a game of dress-up, or make-believe. It is my affirmation of who I now am and what I must do to be happy, in response to a soul-crushing secret that my wife and I have been dealing with for more than seven years, mostly in secret…”

“I have a rare medical condition — nothing deadly or infectious — but it has resulted in an unusual hormonal imbalance,” she explains. “One so profound that I don’t resemble the man you first met 10 years ago.”

The reason he said it was not dress-up or make-believe is because those are exactly what this is, and the reason he tried to blame it on a medical condition or hormonal imbalance is because those clearly are not the causes.

Mainstream news covered his public cross-dressing with breathless acquiescence, instantly calling him “she” and “her” since coming out as “transgender,” which means he walked into work one day wearing a little black dress and auburn wig.

That’s literally what he did. I’m sure his female coworkers were delighted to see and hear him in the women’s bathrooms.

But wait!

About three months after his first announcement, Don decided he made a mistake because he had amnesia and seizures, so he was back to no wig/cue ball head again.

Really.

He claimed he had transient global amnesia, and then he tried to blame his wife for his stupid behavior. Wow, blaming a woman for his own dumb choices—what an original thing for a man to do:

“I accused my wife of playing some kind of cruel joke, dressing me up in a wig and bra and making fake IDs with the name ‘Dawn’ on it. Seriously,” Ennis wrote in a memo he posted to the newsroom bulletin board Friday, explaining his shock after he woke up from what he called a “transient global amnesia” last month…

“I am writing to let you know I’m changing my name…to Don Ennis. That will be my name again, now and forever. And it appears I’m not transgender after all.”

“I have retained the much different mind-set I had in 1999: I am now totally, completely, unabashedly male in my mind, despite my physical attributes,” he said.

What did he mean, physical attributes? Like his Y chromosome and male pattern baldness?

But wait!

Reader, guess what happened next.

Now and forever turned out to be a few months. In May 2014, he put his wig back on, which means he was a woman again, so it was back to Dawn. What if everyone was really still calling him Don though? How would he have known?

Anyway, he began publicly cross-dressing again:

“I am transgender,” says an unequivocal Ennis now. “Yes, there was a time beginning in August 2013 that despite being female I opted to present publicly as male…The reasons for this are complex and a source of great distress for both myself and for my family.”

“Unfortunately, my change in presentation, and my later decision to publicly acknowledge that I had resumed my transition and to once again present as myself in the workplace, were almost immediately followed by meetings with corporate managers about the future of my employment with Disney/ABC.”

He appears to have recognized he was tormenting his family with his nonsense, but it clearly would never stop him and his perversions. And how could he go back so easily if this was caused by a rare medical condition? Did the condition disappear that quickly? (Spoiler: he’s just nasty and selfish.)

He’s not female and never will be. Every single cell in his body is male and always will be. That’s how he fathered three children with his wife. “Presenting” has nothing to do with anything. He’s talking about his wig.

ABC News finally fired him for “performance-related” issues due to his shenanigans. Was his performance affected by the fact that he’s batshit crazy? What a bunch of bigots over at ABC.

We’ve been told many times that being “trans” is an integral and steady part of one’s reality and existence, so why did he go back and forth? Don’t these men know they’re born in the wrong body since childhood? Why would he take off his wig after three months but then put it back on, if this is such a concrete identity?

Because it isn’t.

He’s been male the whole time and always will be, and there is no such thing as “gender identity.”

The great distress he caused his family due to his selfishness affected his children and wife Wendy, who deservedly filed for divorce in 2013:

I am transgender. My transition in 2013 broke Wendy's heart a second time. Not because she could not accept me, but because I was not honest with her, or myself, about what I needed to do to live authentically. The children have been tremendous, loving and have adapted well.

Transition was hard.

Separation has been stomach-wrenching.

Yeah, I’m sure it wasn’t that she couldn’t accept him. He just needed to authentically wear those wigs.

She should have filed for divorce sooner, keeping in mind Don admitted he’s slime.

Divorce is the best decision to make when a husband and father like Don decides to troon out. If a man does this, he is automatically engaging in emotional abuse of his wife and children because he wants to gaslight all of them into going along with his fetish. It can’t be done.

He despises his wife, and he doesn’t deserve a maid/punching bag to clean up his messes as his personal helpmeet. Leaving him is the only proper response. Sticking around is engaging in self-debasement. There is no way around this.

Please take notice how Don’s wigs resemble Wendy’s hairstyle and color. Many of these men attempt to emulate their wives’ looks as a way to skinsuit their existence. If you can’t beat them, join them…or actually, erase them by taking their place.

Don moved to Los Angeles to live out his dreams as independent working lady, leaving his family behind as they continued to suffer.

Wendy was diagnosed with cancer after filing for divorce while Don conveniently remained absent and didn’t provide too much assistance:

For a long time she was a single mother, and I was 2,907 miles away, I could not do enough to help my family. Wendy went to chemo every other week, seven times, and required iron infusions the weeks in between…When their mom got sick they stepped up around the house and helped out tremendously as things at home changed.

Thank goodness his young kids were there to help around the house, which is what he should have been doing.

Sophie and Liam around the time their mother died

Wendy passed away in January 2016 before the divorce was finalized.

Wendy with her three children
Don, Sophie, and Liam at Wendy’s grave

After her death, Don finally returned to the East Coast to take care of his children, as described on his GoFundMe, which has raised $5,668 so far:

I have moved back home and given up my job and my career. Thank goodness for our neighbors and friends who have pitched in with meals and prayers and rides and tons of support…It seems like yesterday that Wendy and I talked via FaceTime about how to stretch the pennies and coins we collect until the next payday at the end of the month.

He recognized he put an unbelievable and unfair burden on his oldest son Sean since playing dress up means Don is no longer the “man of house,” as he is no longer a man at all according to his declaration:

Our Sean, ever so strong, got himself a lifeguard job, and became the man of the house at the tender age of 16. Now he’s 17, his sister 13 and Liam is 9. This fund is now dedicated to their future.

Imagine your father begins publicly cross-dressing, deserts the family while your mother dies of cancer, and informs you from thousands of miles away you’re now the man of the house because he’s not a man anymore, so it’s your job to keep the household going…but don’t worry, he returned just to be a pervert in front of you after your mother dies.

How would that affect a 16-year-old boy like Sean? And his younger sister and brother?

Even if he physically returned, Don still completely emotionally abandoned his kids as their dad since he was now cosplaying as their mom.

Not surprisingly, things got worse after their poor mother shuffled off this mortal coil, and they were stuck with their father and his wigs.

Read the original on kathighsmith.substack.com

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