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Bradley Manning Wants To Live As a Woman
Hugh Pickens DOT Com writes "Reuters reports that Bradley Manning, the U.S. soldier sentenced to 35 years in military prison for the biggest breach of classified documents in the nation's history, says he is female and wants to live as a woman named Chelsea. 'As I transition into this next phase of my life, I want everyone to know the real me. I am Chelsea Manning, I am a female,' Manning, 25, said in the statement read by anchorwoman Savannah Guthrie on NBC News' "Today" show. 'Given the way that I feel and have felt since childhood, I want to begin hormone therapy as soon as possible,' Manning said. 'I also request that starting today you refer to me by my new name and use the feminine pronoun.' A psychiatrist, Navy Reserve Captain David Moulton, testified during Manning's trial that Manning suffered from gender dysphoria, or wanting to be the opposite sex, as well as narcissism and obsessive-compulsive disorder."
Didn't see this one coming.
is SO clearly behind this.
As I transition into this next phase of my life, I want everyone to know the real me. I am Anonymous Cowardess, I am a female.
Here we come.
Or the torture (solitary confinement) really got to him.
Third possibility, 35 years in the brig, he wants to go to woman's prison and be able to bang some chicks.
If she wants to be a man or woman, you insensitive clod!
Saul: A man has the right to change his name to vatever he vants to change it to. And if a man vants to be called Chelsea, godammit this is a free country, you should respect his vishes, and call the man Chelsea!
Morris: His mamma call him Bradley, imma call him Bradley.
Saul: Then you're a putz. All of you are putzes. They should change the sign outside from My-T-Sharp to 'ze Three Putzes.
Didn't work for Klinger in MASH, won't work for him either.
Much to his distress.
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell
Kind of an absurd turn of phrase, isn't it? It's a bit like saying that someone "suffers from" being an asshole.
(Whether Manning deserves to be called a narcissist at all... that is, of course, a whole other question).
In one sentence: Bradley was our hero. Now Chelsea is our hero.
That is two sentences.
unless they involve prison. Am I politically correct yet?
Bradley Womanning?
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Bad move. Now no honest Arsenal fan can like him/her any more. :-)
Better than being on the side of a politician.
Yes. If they let you go with a warning for smoking the joint, punch one of them.
Better than... umm...
Ok, you won.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
I'd ask to be put in a woman's jail as well.
I think having a gay battalion would do a lot to 'further the country's foreign policy goals'.
Could Saddam have survived the first gulf war if the republican guards where handed their asses by the 'lavender battalion'?
Besides military bases are pretty ugly. They will get rid of all that boring olive drab.
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'