GAY TRUTH

It has been four years since gay Labor senator Louise Pratt stood up in parliament, pleading for it to stop pretending her love, her family didn't exist. Pratt lives with a transgender partner Aram. Louise, 40, first met Aram, 29, he was a woman named Renae and their relationship has had to survive his transition to male. In that Senate speech, Pratt made a tearful plea to her fellow parliamentarians to support gay marriage , asking them to “stop pretending our love isn’t as real as yours”. Dr. Paul R. McHugh , the Distinguished Service Professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University and former psychiatrist–in-chief for Johns Hopkins Hospital , who has studied transgendered people for 40 years, said it is a scientific fact that “transgendered men do not become women, nor do transgendered women become men.” He states that transgenderism is a “ mental disorder ” that merits treatment, that sex change is “biologically impossible,” and that people who promote sexual reassignme