How to Be a Girl

Episode XV: Just Maybe

She hasn't got a womb or ovaries but she wants to be a mommy.  How do I tell my young daughter that she won't ever be a biological mother? 



Music credits: "Child Come Home" by <a href="http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Michael_Howard/" target="_blank">Michael Howard</a> (Licensed under <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/" target="_blank">CC BY-NC 3.0</a>)"Flagger" by <a href="http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Blue_Dot_Sessions/" target="_blank">Blue Dot Sessions</a> (Licensed under <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/" target="_blank">CC BY-NC 4.0</a>)“That Old Harpoon” by <a href="http://freemusicarchive.org/music/gillicuddy/" target="_blank">Gillicuddy </a>(Licensed under <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/" target="_blank">CC BY-NC 4.0</a>)

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.