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Bradley Manning Wants To Live As a Woman

Posted by timothy on from the symbolic-of-our-struggle-against-oppression dept.

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."

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  1. Me too. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  2. Re:And this is relevant how...? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    If she wants to be a man or woman, you insensitive clod!

  3. Section 8 by sunking2 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Didn't work for Klinger in MASH, won't work for him either.

  4. Re:A public announcement on national TV. by cold+fjord · · Score: 4, Funny

    Much to his distress.

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    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
  5. Re:And this is relevant how...? by gregulator · · Score: 5, Funny

    In one sentence: Bradley was our hero. Now Chelsea is our hero.

    That is two sentences.

  6. Name change? by Hognoxious · · Score: 4, Funny

    Bradley Womanning?

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    Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
  7. Re:And this is relevant how...? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now Chelsea is our hero.

    Bad move. Now no honest Arsenal fan can like him/her any more. :-)

  8. Re:Hormone therapy? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yes. If they let you go with a warning for smoking the joint, punch one of them.

  9. If i was going away for 35 years by cod3r_ · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'd ask to be put in a woman's jail as well.

  10. Re:Hormone therapy? by HornWumpus · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

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    John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'