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“It’s so odd to be experiencing this from the other side; as recently as last Friday, I felt I was
indeed a woman, in my mind, body and soul...

“Even though I will not wear the wig or the makeup or the skirts again, I promise to remain a
strong straight ally, a supporter of diversity and an advocate for equal rights and other LGBT
issues including same-sex marriage.”

Ennis had previously told friends that he suspected his sex mix-up happened because his mother
gave him female hormones as a child that made him look and sound young to prolong a bit-part
acting career, but he ended up developing breasts and started thinking he was a woman.

He explained he had gone to the National Institute of Health in Bethesda, Md., for testing last
month to understand why his mind and body changed from male to female. He said he learned it
was a hormone imbalance that could be fixed.

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.”

Don added that he now feels “fantastic” as a man again.

And he said he hopes that with the hormone treatment and surgery, things will only get better.

Despite his short stint as a woman he told colleagues in the letter that he promises to remain “a
strong straight ally and a supporter of diversity and an advocate for equal rights and other
LGBT issues including same sex marriage.”

He plans to change the gender and name on his driver’s license, work ID and e-mail.

He called his three-month odyssey into the world of women “a tremendous gift...”
[Source: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/guy_again_eKq3Jw6LjgsjpBdmZklrtM]

Does not the word “confusion” trumpet forth as one reads the article above? What is described is
bizarre, aberrant, and, if I am not mistaken, Don Ennis’ account is also very disingenuous. I find
the account of being stricken with transient global amnesia very convenient. After all, he spent
the previous three months sharing the women’s bathroom with his female co-workers. I suspect
some of them might have husbands who would not be too thrilled to hear that Don was
“mistaken” about being a woman.

Stories such as this reveal the moral confusion that results when mankind departs from an
identification of the natural order of God’s creation. Yesterday it was reported that U.S. Army
Private Bradley Manning, recently sentenced to 35 years in a military prison for exposing
government secrets, has declared that he is transgender. He wants to serve his time in prison as a
woman and has asked to be called Chelsea Manning.

It was reported that Manning experienced gender identity confusion prior to committing his