Episode III: How Old is Gender?
How to Be a Girl
Marlo Mack
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 8 July 2014
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Am I insane? How can I be so sure that my young child is transgender?
Music credits: "Her Love Comes in Air" by soundZcapa, "Gato" by Rod Hamilton, "Kaikou" by Satori.
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| 0:00.0 | How old are we when we know what gender we are? |
| 0:08.0 | One, two, three, four, five, six. |
| 0:15.0 | That's my daughter. |
| 0:17.0 | She's six years old. |
| 0:19.0 | She's transgender. transgender. |
| 0:26.0 | She was born with male parts. |
| 0:29.0 | But as soon as she learned to talk, |
| 0:32.0 | she told me she was actually a girl. |
| 0:37.6 | After an agonizing year of wondering what to do, |
| 0:42.2 | her dad and I chose to have a happy girl rather than a miserable boy. |
| 0:46.8 | So we switched to female pronouns and let her change your name. |
| 0:53.0 | I know what you're thinking. |
| 0:55.0 | What? |
| 0:56.0 | You're thinking, can a six-year-old really know that she's transgender? |
| 1:04.0 | Isn't the kid awfully young to be assigning labels like that? |
| 1:08.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:10.0 | Hmm. I see your point. |
| 1:13.0 | He's three and a point. |
| 1:15.0 | He's three and a half. |
| 1:20.0 | He's seven months old now. |
| 1:22.0 | He's seven months old now. He? Yes, it's a he. |
| 1:25.0 | We chose not to find out until he was born. |
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