Sounds like a troon out after failing out of college as a consequence of spending too much time in far left SJW extremist social media circles. Sounds like the family he lived with after failing out of school sponsored his troon out. Also sounds like they were relying on 'medical advice" from their fellow autistic troons instead of the advice of actual doctors and therapist.
Last summer, when the security firm first allegedly contacted Knight, she was living with a friend named Bailee, who asked to be identified only by their first name, in Georgia. This arrangement came after a period of instability. Several of Knight’s friends tell
Rolling Stone that in February 2022, she lost her student housing at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, where she studied computer science, apparently due to an issue with her scholarship. (Around the same time, friends say, she began to
identify as female, though the housing problem seems to have been unrelated.) “At the time she was freaking out because essentially overnight she had no place to stay and no money and an immigration status newly in question,” says Chad, one of her online confidants, who also asked to be identified only by first name. In a series of recent tweets, Knight described how she lived in a motel for months, and finally
traveled to Georgia instead of using a ticket to Saudi Arabia her family had booked for her.
Bailee says they connected with Knight through mutual Twitter friends a year before. “She needed a place to stay, and so we let her live with us in our house in Georgia,” they tell
Rolling Stone. Bailee was already living with their young son and spouse, but Knight quickly became part of the family. “We shared movies and music, I cooked for her plenty too,” Bailee says. “My son loved her more than anything. She would play with him and teach him things, such as this cute game where you’d run up and hug someone — she said it’s a Saudi thing. She cared for him as if they were related. My spouse and I gave her a bracelet with the word ‘Aunt’ etched into it.”
It was while a part of this household that Knight began to medically transition, “since she felt safe,” Bailee says, and was able to receive hormone replacement therapy, or
HRT. Knight “was so happy to finally get the HRT bottle in the mail,” Bailee remembers.
Yet Knight was “so depressed and anxious about the situation” with her family, Bailee says, and “always worried her father was going to use his power to get her back.” Knight’s father, Dr. Fahad Al-Shathri, is deputy governor for supervision at the Saudi Central Bank, has served on the board of other major banks and funds, and spent five years with the International Monetary Fund in Washington, D.C., during Knight’s adolescence, a time when she attended American schools. Neither he nor the family returned requests for comment, and Al-Shathri deleted his LinkedIn page some time after
Rolling Stone contacted him there.
Those close to Knight say she described her relationship with her mother and father as extremely difficult. Zoe Brugger and Victoria, two friends who met Knight through internet circles, say she told them both parents were intolerant of her trans identity. Victoria recalls how she and Knight would voice chat for hours on Discord: “We were close and related a lot on the religious trauma we both went through. In June of 2022 we met and went to Pride together. I saw a trans woman who was happy and full of life. Eden wanted to be free of her parents and to live her life her own way.”
“My understanding is that she really wanted her family to accept her,” says another of Knight’s friends, Ashley Biddiscombe, who connected with her online. “She told me about dreams she would have where she’d go clothes shopping with her mom as a girl, where her mom loved her and accepted her as a woman. She said that when she was forced to go back to Saudi that it wasn’t all bad, because she would get to see her siblings again. She really missed her sisters.”
Chad says that Knight was “was terrified of violence being done to her,” though he clarifies that this went beyond her family’s attitudes: the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia does not recognize
transgender identity and thereby effectively criminalizes it alongside homosexuality. According to Human Rights Watch, Saudi judges have sentenced people to
imprisonment and flogging for “cross-dressing” and other types of gender nonconformity.
In
private messages that later became public, as well as in Discord chat records shared with
Rolling Stone, Knight claimed to friends that once she had returned to Saudi Arabia, her family hid her passport and money to keep her from fleeing the country. According to Knight’s suicide note, tensions rose as her parents berated her, continued to invade her privacy and, on several occasions, discovered she was still using hormones. “After the first time they found my HRT, it was traumatizing, but I didn’t want to stop,” she wrote. “I didn’t want to live if I couldn’t transition. Then the second time came. After that, I took a month break off of HRT, and got back on it. They have found my HRT again, and I am done fighting.”
“I can’t emphasize enough that the dysphoria was unbearable for her,” Brugger says. “HRT was a potential life-saver. Every time it was confiscated, she found a way to sneak more.” Brugger and Knight chatted on Discord the night before she died. “We were talking about
Neon Genesis Evangelion and sharing memes. I showed her a Nine Inch Nails remix,” Brugger says. Knight later told Brugger that her parents had uncovered her HRT supply once again,
writing, “oh my fucking god I’m panicking,” and “I’m actually gonna Kms.” (“KMS” is short for “kill myself.”)
In one of their previous exchanges, as the two reflected on death, Knight wrote, “I feel like it’s all over and coming to an end. But the things I’ve experienced and joy I’ve had are really unique and I’m pretty grateful.” When Brugger wrote, “I should be dating and fucking around having fun not contemplating the end and reflecting on my past. I want to grow old.” Knight answered: “You will.”
Saudi Trans Woman’s Devastating Suicide Note Leaves Her Community Outraged
