Episode XXXV: Unwelcome (Part II)
How to Be a Girl
Marlo Mack
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 22 October 2024
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
What happens when supporting your child means leaving your home?
Meet my courageous friends from Montana, who are building a new life in a new state after anti-trans legislation targeted their young daughter.
This is the second part in a two-part story. Listen to Part One here.
Music credits:
Game Hens by Blue Dot Sessions
Chorus and Call, Detroit by Podington Bear
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Marlow Mack and this is How to Be a Girl, a podcast I produce about raising my transgender child. |
| 0:10.0 | This is part two in a two-part story. |
| 0:14.0 | If you haven't yet listened to part one, |
| 0:16.0 | you'll probably want to listen to that first. |
| 0:19.0 | In part one, we met a family whose entire lives were uprooted when lawmakers in the state of Montana |
| 0:26.3 | decided to ban gender-affirming medical care for minors. The medical care that is being banned is endorsed for transgender youth by both the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Medical Association. |
| 0:40.0 | And it is the very kind of care that is allowing my own transgender daughter to survive and to thrive. |
| 0:49.0 | So while this isn't my story, It one day could be. |
| 0:54.3 | Are you starting a new recording? |
| 0:56.5 | Uh, yeah. |
| 0:57.5 | Hey, hi. |
| 0:59.5 | How are you? |
| 1:00.5 | Good to see you. |
| 1:02.3 | So what's your favorite thing about living here? |
| 1:05.0 | My friends? |
| 1:07.0 | How are you doing? |
| 1:08.0 | I'm okay. |
| 1:09.0 | It sounds like you've made a lot of friends. |
| 1:11.0 | I do have a lot of friends now. |
| 1:13.0 | Nice. |
| 1:14.0 | She had the best time. |
| 1:16.0 | How is it different here from a year old from Montana? |
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