FLASHBACK: Reporter, trans woman revealed to have changed gender numerous times, fired from producer position

Dawn Ennis, who formerly went by Don Ennis, has been revealed to have changed gender three times in the past, and was later fired from a producer position at ABC for performance related issues.

In May 2013, then-ABC News editor Don Ennis reportedly walked into the newsroom wearing a black dress and an auburn wig, requesting that the staff now refer to him as Dawn, and that Ennis was transgender woman. Ennis also announced that Ennis would be leaving his wife, according to the New York Post.

In the late summer though, Dawn said that he had suffered a two-day bout with amnesia, and that he no longer wanted to be transgender.

"I accused my wife of playing some kind of cruel joke, dressing me up in a wig and bra and making fake ID’s with the name 'Dawn' on it. Seriously," Ennis wrote in a memo that he posted to the newsroom bulletin board, explaining his shock after he woke up from what he called a "transient global amnesia."

"I thought it was 1999 ... and I was sure as hell that I was a man."

"It became obvious this was not the case once I took off the bra — and discovered two reasons I was wearing one," he said, referring to his hormone-induced breasts.

"Fortunately, my memories of the last 14 years have since returned. But what did not return was my identity as Dawn," said Ennis. "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. "I’m asking all of you who accepted me as a transgender to now understand: I was misdiagnosed. I am already using the men’s room and dressing accordingly."

Ennis had previously told friends that he suspected his gender mix-up began young, due to his mother giving him female hormones as a child to make him look and sound young to prolong a bit-part acting career, but ended up developing breasts and started thinking that he is a woman as a result, according to the New York Post.

He said that he had gone to the National Institute of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, for testing in July of 2013, amidst his time as a woman, to understand the sudden change. He said that he learned it was from a hormone balance that could be treated.

"A week after he was discharged, his wife rushed him back to the hospital because he thought he was having a seizure and was experiencing a 'drastic loss of memory,'" the New York Post reported.

Ennis changed genders once again, opting to go again by Dawn, in May of 2014.

According to the New York Daily News, Ennis was fired for "performance-related issues" just weeks after announcing the transition in gender.

An industry source told the Daily News that Ennis' firing had nothing to do with flip-flopping sexuality.

More recently, Ennis was confronted at the NCAA women's swimming tournament by Standing for Women UK founder Keen about whether Ennis, as a biological male who identifies as a woman, uses women's spaces.

"I just want to ask, on the safety of women and girls, do you use women's spaces, private spaces?" Keen asked.

"I'm a woman," Ennis responded.

"Do you understand that using women's private spaces makes women and girls uncomfortable?" Keen asked in response.

"No one has ever objected to my presence," Ennis said.

The two went back and forth for some time, which was later broken up by security, Ennis confirmed on social media.

Ennis wrote a commentary piece for the Los Angeles Blade, a California LGBTQ news outlet, slamming Save Women’s Sports and Standing for Women for being at the NCAA championships and confronting her.

"Like [Lia] Thomas, I am a woman who also happens to be trans. My pronouns are she/her/hers. But to anti-trans inclusion groups like Save Women’s Sports and the UK based organization, Standing for Women, I am a 'biological male' which is a phrase meant to imply that I am not who I say I am. To them, I am a man," wrote Ennis.

"That became quite clear while I was doing my job as a reporter, when one British activist started asking me questions during an interview. My off-the-cuff answers—some of which were admittedly inelegant, abstractly metaphorical and definitely not my best choice of words—resulted in shouting, screaming, in-your-face misgendering and bullying," Ennis continued.

"Keen shared a 2-minute video of the confrontation with her 11.5 million followers on Instagram, and as of press time it has more than 7K views. That same video has been shared nearly 200 times and attracted hundreds of comments on Standing for Women’s Facebook page. At least on Facebook, the group got my name right; Keen deadnamed me on Instagram, and also identified me as being from 'Outsports' even though I haven’t been with the company since May 2021," Ennis added.