Episode II: Daily Life in the House of Girls

How to Be a Girl

Marlo Mack

Kids & Family

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2014

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

What's it like raising a transgender child? How did your family respond? What about school? How in the world does this work? This episode gives you the low-down on what daily life is really like for us.

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0:00.0	I'm going to do a show for you.
0:02.8	Then I want to talk about...
0:04.5	Hi, I'm Marlo Mack.
0:06.8	That's my daughter.
0:07.7	Making a show, doing shows, and how fun I'm making stuff like that.
0:14.2	Like, I'm an actual rock star.
0:16.9	She's transgender.
0:18.9	Okay, I'm ready for the show.
0:45.3	Thank you. She's transgender. Okay, I'm ready for the show. If you heard the first episode of this podcast, you know that my kid was only three years old when she told me she wasn't the boy we all thought she was. I've been working for 20 years, yeah.
0:48.3	And that I spent a year trying to convince her that she was probably just a boy who liked girl stuff.
0:52.3	I've been working for 20 years here and I've noticed that it's kind of hard to act sometimes.
1:01.0	But she wasn't having it. She was a girl. This is my girl song.
1:18.6	Being a girl so much.
1:21.6	My child loves being a girl, probably more than any girl you've ever met.
1:25.6	See a girl,'s on the street.
1:29.1	It is usually me.
1:31.0	Like with a lot of things.
1:35.1	I think when you had to fight for something, it means more to you.
1:37.9	Oh, that it's fun to be a girl.
1:40.4	Marlon Mac's not my real name.
1:42.8	Once I did a play where I was a robot.
1:48.0	I've decided to do this podcast anonymously in order to protect my child's safety and privacy.
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