Episode XVI: How to Be a (Teen) Girl

How to Be a Girl

Marlo Mack

Kids & Family

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2016

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

It’s still five years off, but I think about it all the time. What’s it going to be like when my transgender daughter becomes a teenager?

Music credits:

Andy G Cohen, "Land_Legs" (licensed under CC BY 4.0)

David Mumford, "Twinkle Twinkle Instrumental" (licensed under CC BY 4.0)

Loch Lomond, "Elephants and Little Girls" (licensed under CC BY 4.0)

Kevin Macleod, “J.S. Bach, Prelude in C” (licensed under CC BY 3.0)

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0:00.0	Support for KUOW and How to Be a Girl comes from Cup Cake Royale, standing for gender equality for their employees, community, and society.
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0:23.0	You have arrived.
0:25.0	K-U-O-W Public Radio. you public radio.
0:33.0	in Seattle.
0:35.0	Seattle.
0:37.0	Seattle Washington.
0:40.0	P-O-D-C-A-S-T.
0:47.0	Things are going so well.
0:49.2	My daughter is happy and healthy.
0:52.2	She gets invited to more birthday parties and playdates
0:55.1	than we can handle.
0:57.0	Her third grade teacher says she's a pleasure
0:59.5	to have in class.
1:01.1	She's even started helping me out a little bit around the house without whining.
1:05.0	But I know that Chopier seas are ahead.
1:10.0	What's a teenager?
1:11.0	I suppose all moms joke about how they dread the day their sweet little child turns into a teenager.
1:17.6	Do you know what a teenager is? But for me, it feels less like dread and more like panic.
1:24.0	Describe some of the teenagers you know.
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