If my daughter told me she was a boy, I don’t think I’d pick up a microphone and start recording. Of course, maybe my inclination to record would eventually get the better of me and I’d talk to my daughter on tape, but I certainly don’t think I’d make our chats public.
That said, I sure am glad Marlo Mack (not her real name) did.
Marlo is the producer of the podcast How to Be a Girl. Not too long after her then-son said things like “Mama, I’m a girl,” Marlo started recording. In due course, she started a blog. And then she turned the recordings into a podcast — first-person essays about motherhood and, as the tagline of her podcast puts it, “daily life with my transgender daughter.” (By the…
