SFBayTimes.com – By Jacob Anderson-Minshall
“My first reaction when someone tells me they’re suicidal is…‘I totally understand.’ trans artist Dylan Scholinski reveals. “I’ve been in a constant state of saving my life…going back to when I was high school age. Suicide has been a continual threat…whether it was my own attempts…[or] going through that with friends.”
As a teen, the then female-bodied Daphne Scholinski was diagnosed with gender identity disorder, institutionalized in a mental hospital and forced to undergo extreme femininity training. “Puberty hit me and my voice just dropped,” he recalls. “And my mom was constantly trying to bleach my moustache. It was like a white caterpillar on my upper lip.”