There are some brilliant things to come out of Wales, and I don't just mean the M5 motorway! (lol) There are singers such as Tom Jones (who we women used to throw our knickers at in the 60s - I just hope they were clean!!), brilliant Actors such as Richard Burton or Anthony Hopkins and writers such as Dylan Thomas. I would also include the group Manic Street Preachers, who's album 'This is my truth, tell me yours' includes the track 'Born a girl'.

The lyrics to the song are reproduced below and I would probably have it playing in the background if I could work out how to do it. (I don't know, finally starting out as a woman [most of the time] and already my technical know-how has disappeared.) The chorus of the song sings out to me so strongly it nearly bursts my ear drums. I have been a vegetarian for 15 years, but if wishes did come true when you pull the wish-bone I'd be having Chicken Tonight and ever night, because I really do 'wish I had been born a girl'. And as a man the word 'Mess' is far too mild to describe the wreck I had become.
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Born a Girl

Do I look good for you tonight
Will you accuse me as I hide
Behind these layers of disguise
In the mirrors of my own happiness

I’ve loved the freedom of being inside
Need a new start and a different time
Something grows in the space between me
And it’s twisting and changing this fragile body

And I wish I had been born a girl instead of what I am
Yes I wish I had been born a girl and not this mess of a man
And not this mess of a man
And not this mess of a man

The censorship of my skin
Is screaming inside and from within
There’s no room in this world for a girl like me
And place around there where I fit in

And I wish I had been born a girl instead of what I am
Yes I wish I had been born a girl and not this mess of a man
And not this mess of a man
And not this mess of a man
And not this mess of a man
And not this mess of a man
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To me it could almost be the TS theme tune, but what do others think?
Click below to listen!:
http://www.last.fm/music/Manic+Street+Preachers/_/Born+a+Girl