Intro from Jay Allison: Marlo Mack is starting a new podcast. On Transom, she writes “When my son was three years old, he informed me that he… was actually a she. ‘Something went wrong in your tummy,’ my child told me, ‘that made me come out as a boy instead of a girl.'”
One advantage of podcasting is that we can hear about people’s lives directly from them. We can hear stories unfiltered by broadcast gatekeepers or rendered bland by standard-issue editorial style. In “How To Be A Girl,” Marlo and her child tell us what they are discovering about gender and identity, as they discover it. As Marlo (not her real name) says, “I watched my son transform, bit by bit, dress by dress, into the daughter I now can’t imagine life without.” Their story promises a remarkable view into this terrain, and Transom is proud to premiere it.
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