Episode XIV: My Friend Lauren

How to Be a Girl

Marlo Mack

Kids & Family

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2016

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

When I first realized I had a transgender child, Lauren reached out and told me it was going to be OK. Ever since, she's been the one I lean on when I'm terrified. She's the bravest woman I know.

Music credits:

“George Street Shuffle” and “In Your Arms” by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

“Evenhanded” by Podington Bear

“From here to Iceland" by Loch Lomond

“I Enjoy Being a Girl,” performed by Christine Jorgensen

"Mars Landscape: Moon Set” by Julie Maxwell (Source: Free Music Archive, CC License)

Thank you to my new supporters on Patreon.com: Brady Houck, Shaleece Haas, Rona So, Jennifer Zuber, Emily Hoff, Andrew Weisner, and Damiana Day.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Support for KUO W and How to Be a Girl comes from Cupcake Royal, standing for gender equality for their employees, community, and society.
0:09.0	Cup Cake Royal cares deeply about making the best cupcakes ice cream and espresso.
0:13.7	Seasonal treats available in all six cafes and metropolitan markets.
0:18.4	Learn more at cupcake royal.com. You have arrived.
0:26.3	K-U-O-W public radio.
0:31.6	In Seattle.
0:33.0	And now for the show.
0:40.0	When I started writing my blog and producing this podcast, my daughter was just five years old.
0:46.0	Isn't this a beautiful necklace?
0:50.0	She had already told me that she was a girl.
0:52.0	No, it's a necklace crown.
0:53.8	But she couldn't tell me much else.
0:55.4	A necklace crown is like a...
0:56.8	What it felt like, what it meant to her.
0:59.9	Want to see how it looked?
1:02.4	Or what she needed for me, because she was five.
1:07.0	My little family.
1:10.0	My own daughter was the first transgender person I ever met.
1:15.0	This was before anyone was talking about people like
1:19.0	Laverne Cox or Caitlin Jenner.
1:21.0	She really loved you.
1:23.0	All I had heard were awful stories and frightening statistics.
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