Born in the Wrong Body is a LGBT-related documentary TV special focusing on five young transsexual adults discussing about how hard it can be to get accepted by society while they are happy and content with the choices they made from the MSNBC channel. It had its television premiere on April 22, 2007. A follow-up episode to it debuted on Thursday December 28, 2007 on MSNBC called Born in the Wrong Body: On the Edge and another one. Born in the Wrong Body: Girls will be Boys.
Famous quotes containing the words born in the, born in, born, wrong and/or body:
“My time has come.
There are twenty people in my belly,
there is a magnitude of wings,
there are forty eyes shooting like arrows,
and they will all be born.
All be born in the yellow wind.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“Here was a little of everything in a small compass to satisfy the wants and the ambition of the woods,... but there seemed to me, as usual, a preponderance of children’s toys,—dogs to bark, and cats to mew, and trumpets to blow, where natives there hardly are yet. As if a child born into the Maine woods, among the pine cones and cedar berries, could not do without such a sugar-man or skipping-jack as the young Rothschild has.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“When you’re born you don’t bring it with you; when you die you can’t take it with you.”
—Chinese proverb.
“What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say “I know” instead of “I am learning,” and pray for credulity and inertia as wise men pray for scepticism and activity.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“I think that if most guys in America could somehow get their fave-rave poster girl in bed and have total license to do whatever they wanted with this legendary body for one afternoon, at least 75 percent of the guys in the country would elect to beat her up.”
—Lester Bangs (1948–1982)