[xJones]

"By having members of Parliament [MPs] from rainbow communities continuously for the past nine years, including the world's only transgender MP and the world's only current openly gay cabinet minister, we have ensured that our power structures include a rainbow voice," Barnett wrote.

Shag, I did a quick Google on Clark, and I see she's about 53 and apparently never married, and no kids. She's transgender?! What, er, does that entail in her case, if true?

[shaggy eel]

,,, her biography "Helen", written by Brian Edwards, her publicist/media coach etc. states that she cried on her wedding day. Her husband lives in Christchurch, she lives in Auckland. Just before the last election here, a Wellington newspaper carried an article where he stated that he regretted he and Helen had never had any children - the price paid for dedication to making sure everyone gets to live the way she thinks they should.