#DiscoSexology Part VIII: Interview the Author of The Last Time I Wore A Dress
Disco Sexology, Pt. 7: Affirmative Therapy Disco Sexology, Pt. 9: Conclusion By Cristan Williams Listen to this article Upon completion of this series, this work will be released, in its entirety, as both an audio and ebook. Installment Preface Welcome to the eighth installment in this series on the rise and fall of Disco Sexology. In the previous installment, I interviewed radical feminist and pioneer in affirmative models of trans care, Arlene Lev. In this installment, I interview the author of the classic, The Last Time I Wore a Dress, Dylan Scholinski. Scholinski was diagnosed with Gender Identity Disorder and confined to a mental institution that sought to convert him into a cisgender girl through makeup lessons and other gender-related “therapies.” Alternatively, affirming therapeutic models offer a patient-therapist relationship wherein the patient’s gender isn’t problematized. However, this approach was recently criticized in a BBC documentary titled, Transgender Kids: Who Knows
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Why this article may matter
Community significance
“#DiscoSexology Part VIII: Interview the Author of The Last Time I Wore A Dress” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to transgender identity and history, while also engaging education and youth. Such accounts can document how an issue was understood and experienced from within the period or community being discussed.
Historical significance
The article may have historical value because it explicitly interprets or preserves material concerning transgender identity and history. Published in 2017 by Transadvocate.com, it can be read both for the history it describes and as evidence of how education and youth was framed at that moment.
Policy significance
“#DiscoSexology Part VIII: Interview the Author of The Last Time I Wore A Dress” discusses institutions, law, or governance in connection with transgender identity and history. Even without a dominant policy classification, the article may help researchers identify practical consequences for education and youth.
Ranked themes and framings
Rank 1 is the dominant inferred theme or framing. Parent labels identify broader theme families; the relationship key beneath the diagram explains the line styles used for hierarchy, same-family relationships, overlap, and separate-but-related themes.
Themes
- 1Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community100%
- 2Education and youthTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life88%
- 3Culture, identity, and representationTheme family: Identity, culture, and community74%
- 4Healthcare and medicineTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life70%
- 5Feminism and gender politicsTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict67%
- 6Family and relationshipsTheme family: Identity, culture, and community33%
Academic framing
- 1100%
- 285%
- 359%
- 424%
Editorial function
Source topics
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How “Transgender identity and history” appears across the Collective corpus
This article appeared 4 year(s) after the theme’s highest annual presence in the registered corpus in 2013.
Relative presence by year
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Frequently co-occurring concepts
- Community and organizing531
- Law and civil rights468
- Culture, identity, and representation320
- Education and youth308
- Media, rhetoric, and discourse260
- Healthcare and medicine248
- Violence, safety, and dehumanization238
- History, archives, and memory216
- Public policy and governance206
- Feminism and gender politics198
Academic framings in this topic
Policy framings in this topic
- Public accommodations and facilities177
- Civil rights and anti-discrimination173
- Criminal justice and public safety131
- Elections and democratic governance100
- Research ethics and data governance78
- Labor and employment policy52
- Administrative classification and identity documents39
- Housing and social services38
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Documented circulation and reception
The documented sources span 1 domain. The dated evidence currently spans 2018–2024. These observations describe circulation and reuse; they do not assign cultural worth or evaluate the communities, arguments, or people discussed.
Evidence by channel
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Shows what has actually been checkedDocumented references over time
Dated source evidence currently stored by the CollectiveGender-Critical Policy Causes Brain Damage in Trans Youth
In 2004, the radical feminist and clinical psychologist Arlene Lev published Transgender Emergence: Therapeutic Guidelines for Working with Gender-Variant People and Their Families, which advocated against the use of operant conditioning aimed at preventing, halting, or reversing a non-cisgender experience of self because outcomes were…
Singal’s Florida: You’re very wrong about trans kids
In its heyday, Zucker’s GID clinic was one of the busiest and most prominent clinics of its type in the world, and the vast majority of kids Zucker’s clinic “treated” didn’t have GD in the first place. Nonetheless, GID kids were treated for GID with…
Counts describe documented circulation and reception in the sources currently available to the Collective. They are not a score of quality, merit, popularity, or social value, and provider totals can overlap.
Author profiles and related researchers
Related authors in the Collective corpus
Cristan Williams
Connected through 2 citation links between registered publications. Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Education and youth.
Guest
Connected through 1 citation link between registered publications. Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Education and youth.
Rani Baker
Connected through 1 citation link between registered publications. Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Education and youth.
Kelley Winters
Connected through 1 citation link between registered publications. Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Education and youth.
Admin
Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Education and youth.
Marian
Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Education and youth.
Related authors are calculated from co-authorship, shared themes and framings, and citation relationships in the registered corpus. This does not imply a personal or institutional association.
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