![]() ![]() ![]() To entertain themselves, she and other patients competed to shock the staff and get unusual diagnoses added to their charts. In a series of institutions, Daphne busied herself working the system to earn more privileges. Desperate for a mothering relationship, she latched onto nurses, begging to be adopted by the most compassionate one, and attempting suicide when her efforts were rebuffed. Daphne was indirectly blamed for all her family's troubles and told that her depression and confusion were symptoms of her improper gender identification. ![]() In 1981, at odds with her raging father and abandoned by her free-thinking mother, 15-year-old Daphne was committed to a psychiatric hospital, at which a treatment plan was designed to help her identify as a "sexual female." Over one million dollars (you read that right) of insurance money was spent on three years of make-up lessons, encouragement of flirtation with males, and points for hugging male staff members. When the clerk confronted Daphne's father, instead of correcting the clerk, her weary father slapped her hand: "Bad boy. On one grocery trip, a clerk caught the "boy" for using the women's restroom. As a tomboy youth, she was often mistaken for male. ( More customer reviews)Daphne Scholinski wore the label of "inappropriate female" for much of her life. ![]()
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