Episode X: School (Part II)
How to Be a Girl
Marlo Mack
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 24 March 2016
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
This is a continuation of Episode IX. It tells the rest of the story of what happened when my transgender daughter started second grade at a new school.
Music credits: "Light Thought Variation 2," "Thatched Villagers," and "Relaxing Piano Music" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), "Moonlight Sonata (Ludwig van Beethoven)" by Dr. Phibes and The Ten Plagues of Egypt, "Bagatelle (Ludwig van Beethoven)" by Circus Marcus.
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| 0:00.0 | I've been told that a lot of people don't listen to the credits at the very end of podcast episodes, |
| 0:05.2 | and I suppose I'm probably one of those people, so I thought I'd start this episode with a brief |
| 0:09.6 | request that usually comes at the end. If you'd like to support this podcast, please check out |
| 0:16.0 | the crowdfunding website, patreon.com. That's P-A-T-R-E-O-N, and search for how to be a girl. Okay, that's it. |
| 0:27.8 | Thanks. On to the episode. This is the second part of a two-episode story about my daughter starting second grade at a new school. |
| 0:40.3 | If you haven't listened to part one, you might want to go back and listen to that first. |
| 0:45.3 | And whether you've heard part one or not, here's a really brief recap. |
| 0:51.3 | This past fall, I enrolled my transgender daughter in a new school, a big public school. |
| 0:57.0 | How are you feeling? Are you feeling excited? Very. Very. First day of school. |
| 1:06.0 | We told the teacher, the school counselor, and the school nurse that she was transgender. |
| 1:12.6 | But no one else. |
| 1:14.8 | No other staff or students or parents. |
| 1:18.7 | Because in general, my daughter really doesn't want people to know that she's trans. |
| 1:23.1 | And because she had expressed the completely reasonable fear that if the other kids found out, |
| 1:28.4 | they might start teasing her. |
| 1:30.3 | Did anybody ever say anything, like laugh at you or make you feel weird? |
| 1:33.3 | No. |
| 1:34.3 | Doesn't mean it won't happen. |
| 1:37.3 | So the only other kid in the whole school who knew that she was transgender was Posey. |
| 1:43.3 | A little girl in the neighborhood my daughter |
| 1:46.0 | plays with, plus Posey's parents. After school started, everything went great. Until my daughter |
| 1:56.2 | came home from school one day and informed me that she had told some random little girl in her class, |
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