How to Be a Girl by Marlo Mack grew out of her podcast of the same name. It’s an audiobook published as an Audible Original, out now for Transgender Awareness Week.“When my child first told me, at age 3, that she was not the boy we all believed her to be, I assumed it was a phase and didn’t take it too seriously,” Mack, who also narrated the book, tells The Advocate. “How could such a small person know what gender they were?
In any case, I believed it was impossible: How could a boy become a girl? I might as well allow my child to become a turtle or a T.
rex! I thought perhaps I had a gay son, or simply an unconventional one with a flair for drama and fabulous taste in fashion.