How to Be a Girl

Episode VIII: Meeting Laverne

Earlier this year, my daughter got to meet the transgender TV star Laverne Cox. <a href="https://gendermom.wordpress.com/2015/06/01/my-daughter-caitlyn-jenner-and-laverne-cox/" target="_blank">I wrote about it for my blog</a>, and that heart-warming, feel-good post <a href="http://www.people.com/article/laverne-cox-transgender-girl-m" target="_blank">went crazy viral </a>on the internet.  But there's more to the story.  Here it is.



My daughter gave her first interview (to Amy Poehler's Smart Girls website): <a href="http://amysmartgirls.com/re-defining-what-it-means-to-be-a-girl-with-7-year-old-transgender-girl-m-and-her-mom/" target="_blank">Check it out!</a>Music credits: "Hearts Mend (Prelude)" by Rebecca Foon, "EDM Detection Mode" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), "nu pop2" by Plusplus.

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.