Episode XXI: Going First
How to Be a Girl
Marlo Mack
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 10 May 2018
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, my daughter and I get to talk with two of our heroes. Jazz Jennings is a reality TV star, LGBTQ activist, and arguably the most famous transgender teen in the world. Her mom Jeanette is as brave as they come.
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| 0:00.0 | It was, over six years ago, back in 2011, when my three-year-old child told me I had it all wrong, that |
| 0:09.3 | she wasn't the boy I thought she was. I had never heard of such a thing, a boy who wanted to be a girl, who claimed he was a girl. |
| 0:18.0 | I had heard the word transgender, and I had a vague idea of it having something to do with grown men who |
| 0:26.2 | wore women's clothing and had embarrassing surgeries that people made jokes |
| 0:29.9 | about. But it seemed inconceivable that that could have anything to do with my precious little |
| 0:35.8 | child. |
| 0:38.1 | I was utterly terrified. |
| 0:41.4 | How could this ever be okay? |
| 0:44.0 | How was I supposed to parent this child |
| 0:47.0 | who seemed to be begging me for the impossible? |
| 0:51.0 | The only futures I could imagine were dark ones. |
| 0:55.0 | And then one day I went online and found the little girl who changed everything. |
| 1:03.2 | She was just six years old. |
| 1:07.8 | Your mommy says you have special. |
| 1:09.6 | Do you think you're special? |
| 1:10.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:11.8 | This was a child like mine. Your child was born a boy and now you call him a girl. Yes? Yes. |
| 1:20.0 | And this mother she was like me. This baby came out and basically said this is who I am I'm a girl. |
| 1:27.0 | Are you a boy or a girl? |
| 1:30.0 | A girl. |
| 1:31.0 | It was the beginning of hope. |
| 1:35.0 | Good evening. |
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