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Transgender - Danger: Politicians personal views don't match science

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Transgender - Politicians personal views don't match science A law that would allow transgender South Australians to have their gender formally recognised without undergoing surgery will eventually pass, Premier Jay Weatherill says. A conscience vote on the proposal was lost in state parliament on Thursday with measures to prevent couples being forced to divorce if a partner transitioned also defeated. The premier has championed the bill but was absent from the evening vote because of a trip to Finland to visit a nuclear waste dump . Mr Weatherill says  "As I understand it, there is a majority of people that support this bill and it will ultimately become law at some point, either later this year or early next year." Politicians ignore science - promote LGBT ideology  Yet 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 transgender

Gay Labor senator Louise Pratt wants plebiscite scrapped - her personal truth

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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

Remembering Reimer: How one man’s tragic suicide proved that boys shouldn’t be raised as girls

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WINNIPEG, Manitoba, May 7, 2014 – Ten years ago David Reimer , 38, parked his truck at a local shopping center, put a sawed-off shotgun to his head, and pulled the trigger. His tragic death emphasized the total failure of one of the most famous gender alteration cases in modern medicine. Bruce's name was changed to 'Brenda' and he was raised as a girl. David Reimer was originally named Bruce after he was born a boy along with his identical twin brother Brian in Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1965. A botched circumcision at about eight months burned off the boy’s penis, leaving his young parents bewildered about how they should raise their son. Parents thought they had found an answer when they learned through a television program about Dr. John Money of the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, a psychologist renowned for his theories about gender. Money believed identifying as male or female was a learned trait, but wanted to prove his theory with an ideal test subjec