How to Be a Girl

Episode XIV: My Friend Lauren

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. 



My friend, "Lauren," in 1979. 


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 <a href="http://www.juliemaxwell.com" target="_blank">Julie Maxwell</a> (Source:  <a href="http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Julie_Maxwells_Piano_Music/" target="_blank">Free Music Archive</a>, <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/" target="_blank">CC License</a>)Thank you to my new supporters on <a href="https://www.patreon.com/girlpodcast" target="_blank">Patreon.com</a>: Brady Houck, Shaleece Haas, Rona So, Jennifer Zuber, Emily Hoff, Andrew Weisner, and Damiana Day.

How to Be a Girl is an audio podcast I produce about life with my six-year-old transgender daughter. It stars the two of us -- a single mom and a six-year-old "girl with a penis" -- as we attempt together to sort out just what it means to be a girl.