Episode XXXIV: Unwelcome (Part I)
How to Be a Girl
Marlo Mack
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 7 October 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Imagine living in a place where your own child has been outlawed. This is happening, right now, all over the United States.
In this episode, you’ll meet my new friends, a courageous and close-knit family who suddenly found themselves unwelcome in the place they had always called home.
Music credits:
Night Light, Dowdy, Quarry Clouds, & November Mist, by Blue Dot Sessions
Pacific Tree Frogs by Podington Bear
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| 0:00.0 | We have not said in so many words that she would not be allowed to I don't know if |
| 0:12.4 | be a girl is the right way, but grow up the way she wants to grow up there. |
| 0:17.0 | I don't know how to say that, because that's something a parent should never have to say to their child. |
| 0:26.0 | Especially, well any child, especially your young child, |
| 0:30.8 | to go to your child and say, hey, we're moving because you're not allowed to, I don't know, |
| 0:38.0 | you're not allowed to thrive here, you know? |
| 0:42.0 | I'm Marlow Mac, and this is how to be a girl. |
| 0:48.0 | A podcast I produce about raising my transgender child. |
| 0:52.0 | This episode isn't directly about us, but it is |
| 0:57.1 | about a family with a child very much like mine, who just happened to be living in one of the many parts of this country where |
| 1:05.3 | politics has turned its back on humanity. |
| 1:19.0 | My daughter is extremely close to my parents, especially to her grandpa. Bubba. |
| 1:20.0 | Hello? |
| 1:21.0 | I hear you. |
| 1:22.0 | Good, I'm glad you can. |
| 1:24.0 | They were like, I would say they were like best friends. |
| 1:26.0 | Your nine-year-old daughter and her grandpa. |
| 1:28.0 | Yep. |
| 1:29.0 | So do you have a question for me or a couple? |
| 1:31.0 | Why's your nose hairy? Well, that's an old man thing. |
| 1:37.0 | Her grandma as well, they're very, very close. |
| 1:41.0 | Do you remember when you first laid eyes on your granddaughter? Oh yes I do. Our first granddaughter, our first grandchild, just with so much love you just can't imagine because you've loved your own children so much but |
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