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Memoirs

THE LAST TIME I WORE A DRESS

Dylan Scholinski Jane Meredith Adams

A Memoir

Twenty-five years after its initial publication, this gripping true story of psychiatric confinement is being reissued with a new epilogue. Dylan Scholinski, born Daphne, was characterized in her teenage years as "an inappropriate female" when they were suffering gender identity disorder and were actually trans. And while the term 'transgender' was gaining use in the '90s, the cultural understanding of what a trans person's life might look like was nowhere near enough to assist Dylan as they were growing up. Now, however, we as a society are much more familiar with and accepting of queerness, creating the perfect environment for Dylan's story to have a renaissance. An important addition to the literature and history of trans liberation, The Last Time I Wore a Dress provides an honest look at the recent past, and shares hope for a future by showing Dylan thriving as an adult within the larger context of their family and community.

DYLAN SCHOLINSKI is a distinguished artist, author, and public speaker. Dylan has appeared on 20/20, Dateline and Today to discuss their experiences, and has been featured in a variety of newspapers and magazines. Their work not only portrays the anguish of their hospital years, but also their ultimate triumph. Dylan is the founder/witness for the Sent(a)Mental Project: A Memorial to Suicide. JANE MEREDITH ADAMS is a freelance journalist, former reporter for The Boston Globe and The Chicago Tribune, and editor at Parenting Magazine.

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Book Published 1997-03-04 by Riverhead

Comments

From the time they were fifteen in 1981 until their eighteenth birthday, when the insurance ran out, Dylan Scholinski lived in mental institutions. Among the diagnoses that made them eligible for the $1 million worth of treatment they received was 'gender-identity disorder'...Scholinski tells the story of those harrowing years in a simple style that beautifully conveys desperation, irony, strength, and above all, urgency

This patient's-eye view of life in a psychiatric hospital in the 1980s draws on the techniques of Susanna Kaysen's Girl, Interrupted but offers an original perspective on the dubious diagnosis Scholinski was given...a notable book...a powerful voice.