Marlo Mack and her 13-year-old daughter live in Washington, USA. She runs the ‘How to Be a Girl’ podcast about raising a transgender child, as they attempt to figure out together what it means to be a girl.
Amidst an increasingly hostile environment in the UK and the US where violence towards transgender people is on the rise, Marlo shares the realities of being a parent to a transgender child, and why it’s so important that we listen and support young people struggling with their gender identity…
When my child was born, I was told I had a boy.
Except my child never behaved like a typical boy. As soon as she could walk and talk, she let me know that she belonged in the world of girls: of ballet lessons, princesses and fairy queens. When she was three, she started correcting me whenever I referred to her as a boy.
I didn’t take this too seriously until about a year later, when she looked me in the eyes and asked me to put her back in my tummy. I remember her saying, “Mama, I need to go back in your tummy, so I can come out again as a girl….
