Information reaching Kossyderrickent has it that Transgender, Eden Knight, revealed in suicide note that SI SPECINV staff, Michael Pocalyko and Ellen Cole, were paid by parents to trick and forcibly detransition her in Saudi Arabia. (Read More Here).
Eden Knight's final message:
Final Message
hi. If you’re reading this, I’ve already killed myself. I have given life every opportunity, I have given myself every chance to get better. But I couldn’t do it, I wasn’t strong enough, I don’t think there was a universe where I was ever strong enough to survive this.
Why?
Sometime in the summer, I was contacted by Michael Pocalyko (Cybersecurity guy) through an IRL friend who claimed he was a “fixer” and wanted to “fix” the issue that was between me and my parents. I thought this was impossible, I’m transgender and they are strict conservative Muslims, but I decided I would give it a shot because it can’t hurt right lmao?
Over the next couple of months, I had called Michael Pocalyko and his associate Ellen, these calls seemed innocuous and honestly pretty helpful. It was mainly questions about my safety and whether I had my needs met at the place I was staying at. Towards the end of my stay at my friends place, I had witnessed a traumatic event and was already in a bad place mentally, Michael took note of this and decided to push me to leave Georgia and move back to Virginia. Michael and Ellen, along with a Saudi lawyer named Bader met me at the train station. I was taken to a hotel and allowed to experience DC, I genuinely was optimistic and believed this could work. God I wish I wasn’t so fucking stupid.
At this point, the only person in that group that I was in contact with was Bader, the Saudi lawyer. Bader, throughout this entire time, in his weird way, tried to get me to detransition. First, he pampered me. He got me an apartment temporarily, he took me out to eat, he took me to therapists, but over time, the more conversations I had with him in person, the more I realized what he was trying to do. He tried to get me to be “normal.” Gave me examples of feminine men and said that they are transgender but they are hiding it, that it’s better to hide it. Told me stories personally about people he knew that successfully hid it. Repeated constantly that I can just hold 2 lives, the female me and the male me. Constantly said I looked like a man, always talked down on my appearance. Bought me masculine clothing and tried to throw away ALL of my feminine clothing. At every step of the way, he tried to detransition me. I had a breakdown over this and bombarded Michael Pocalyko and Ellen with texts about what was happening, they did not respond. I did not realize fast enough what was happening because I’m fucking stupid.
At a certain point, I realized I was entirely dependent on Bader for food and shelter, and that if I ran away, he could easily find my location, and since I was illegal, I would have just been deported to Saudi. I subconsciously gave up, I was too tired. I did everything he asked, I cut my hair, I stopped taking estrogen, I changed my wardrobe, I met my dad. And then I had another breakdown. My mom kept telling me to repent or I was going to hell, and I did, I repented. I believed I was going to hell so much that I read the entire Quran front to back in a couple of days, crying the entire fucking time about what a disgusting thing I am, and I didn’t sleep. I repented, and I was broken. Bader then booked a flight back to Saudi, and I came back.
The first month was fine, okay even. I was on edge the entire time, but I was treated like I was going to run at any second by my family, then came the second month. At this point, I was subjected to daily searches of my belongings, my mom searched all of my electronics whenever she got the chance. I was berated for being a freak when my mom found my private photos, my dad called me a failure and an abomination. I was told that Michael, Ellen, and Bader were actually all specifically hired to get me back and that there was no escape from my situation. I was destroyed, but I wanted to keep going.
After the first time they found my HRT, it was traumatizing, but I didn’t want to stop. 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.
Eden's father, and the same man who hired Michael Pocalyko to forcibly detransition her, which caused her to take her own life.
Journalists, activists, friends, trans allies and onlookers: Hello.
We are friends of Eden Knight, who was a trans woman from Saudi Arabia living in America. She was tricked by financial support from "fixers", allegedly hired by her parents, into moving back to Saudi Arabia and detransitioning.
Eden was funny, sharp, well-read, and concerned with making the world a better place. She stood up for marginalized people and regularly critiqued the conservative, suffocating culture she had left back home.
On the morning of March 12, 2023, Eden posted her suicide note on Twitter. In it, Eden laid out how she was manipulated into depending on people hired by her powerful parents to pose as friends, but whose actual goal was to force her to detransition and move back to Saudi Arabia.
They succeeded. This morning of Monday, March 13th, 2023 Eden’s family confirmed both her passing in Saudi Arabia and their identity.
We are greatly disturbed by how she was treated. We believe that what happened to her was an unspeakable violation and there must be consequences. Justice must be served.
In this document, we have laid out some of the pieces of evidence that we believe tell Eden’s story and expose the ways she was failed and violated by her parents, by powerful American citizens willing to do anything for money, by a Saudi government official who posed as a friend and by the US justice and immigration systems that should have been there to offer her asylum and safety.
She deserved better in life and she deserves better in death.
With love and care,
Friends of Eden
Eden was also known as Solaria or “@CYBERANGELFAERY”.
Eden started her journey on Twitter still living in the closet and hanging out with progressives and people who want to build a brighter, better world. Eden lived in the US while she was attending school. During the global COVID pandemic she came out as trans. Since then, she has been a light in the trans community. Everyone who speaks about her mentions her humor and her kindness. She possessed an inner strength that we admire and know deserves recognition.
We had a long description here about the evidence we had that we wouldn’t publish publicly but would share with journalists that Dr. Fahad Al-Shathri, Deputy Governor for Supervision at the Saudi Central Bank (SAMA), was her father, however that’s no longer necessary as her family announced online today about her passing and a service to honor her. It deadnames and misgenders her, something we believe to be a callous continued violation.
SI Cyber and SI specinv is the company of firm responsible for sending Eden Knight to Saudi Arabia.
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SI is a professional services firm and government contractor in the investigations, intelligence, and cyber sectors, based in the Washington DC metropolitan area, operating business units SPECINV – Special Investigations and SI Cyber worldwide.
SI is a federal government prime contractor serving commercial and government clients. The corporation began operations in 2014 as Special Investigations Limited Company, the first investigative firm formed out of the securities and financial services industries.
SI serves clients in a broad range of industries and sectors including government, financial services, wealth management, health care, insurance, law, transportation, construction, information technology, not-for-profit, and professional services.
SPECINV – Special Investigations has deep experience in fraud, financial forensics, corruption, global anti-money laundering operations, sexual misconduct in the workplace, and the employment of skills and methodologies of the Intelligence Community.
SI Cyber, the SI business unit addressing cybersecurity needs of the federal government, state and local government, and corporations, takes a distinctly different approach to cyberadvisory engagements—deploying proprietary methods of investigations alongside innovative customized solutions.
SI acquired Enterprise Applications, Inc. in 2017 to provide a comprehensive range of business process optimization solutions for government agencies and commercial clients.
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