In my opinion, there’s never been a better time to come forward as a LGBT individual in an environment that would have been hostile towards it just ten years ago. Things have changed post-Glee, post-Jason Collins, post-Brittney Griner, post-Laura Jane Grace, post-a whole other bunch of positive stuff for the LGBT community that I'm probably forgetting.
However, the T in LGBT – transgender – is probably the least-understood frontier and last to be accepted by the mainstream. But that ignorance may end if more prominent people speak out about it: ABC News editor and producer Don Ennis announced last week that she would be leaving her wife of 17 years, Wendy, and, at 49 years old, starting over as a woman (Dawn), reports the New York Post. And the reveal was full-throttle awesome: She walked into her office on Friday in a “little black dress” and a brunette bobbed wig and announced to colleagues that from now on, she would like to be known as Dawn.
Dawn wrote on her Facebook: “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.”
As for Dawn's wife, she sounds extraordinarily understanding about the whole thing. "Despite the heartbreak, [Wendy] has encouraged me to start this new life that we both believe better fits who I now am. Trust me, this is NOT the midlife crisis I was counting on — I’d much prefer to have bought a sports car. Even an affair, I think, would have been something we might have recovered from."
Ennis attributes her desire to live as a woman to a "rare hormone imbalance" thanks to the female hormones that her mother gave her as a child actor.
Best of luck to her.
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