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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."
Will they really provide that in prison?
No offense to transpeople, but why is this on Slashdot? I don't give a fuck if he wants to be a man or a woman in jail.
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.
Getting popcorn - I fully expect this discussion to be mature and informative.
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.
An American Mata Hari. had to be the hard way!
As a G in the LGBT community, genuinely, I wish Chelsea as safe a transition as possible in those conditions. Probably won't be easy and it sucks that there will be a LOT of negativity thrown her way.
Who cares if he wants to live as a woman, a man or a chipmonk?
This inane crap belongs on Digg not here.
Self-identifying as a woman is not a sign of insanity. There are quite a number of transgendered people in the world today, from young to old, pre-op or post-op, leading perfectly normal lives.
While we used to refer to the condition as Gender Identity Disorder in the DSM-IV, it was replaced with Gender Dysphoria in the DSM-V because we now don't think of it as a disorder. In fact, the general "treatment" is not to make the mind match the body, but to make the body match the mind. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_identity_disorder .
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Sounds like they thoroughly broke him. First apologizing and then this. Doesn't look like he is going for insanity (trial is over), seems like he got insane for his time in solitary. Not saying that because he self identifies as a woman (something that happens to some people naturally) but because of the timing of the whole matter.
This was from before. His defense (I assume) even released photos of him in a wig and lipstick.
"For every expert, there is an equal and opposite expert"
The idea is that sex and gender are not the same thing - one is, as you said, biological, and the other is psychological. Yes, in the end it's all biology, but you can't argue that gender dysphoria is not a real phenomenon. So, the question you have to ask, is what's the best way to treat this condition? Is it to say, "Deal with it, you were born this, you are this," or, is it to give them therapy and open the door to procedures that do, in fact, seem to lessen the psychological suffering of such individuals?
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.
"Timing" of what? You mean, the thing that's been going on for five years or more for him?
Ezekiel 23:20
I do believe he was struggling with gender identity issues before this whole ordeal.
UPDATE Slashdot.headline SET headline_txt=REPLACE(headline_txt, '/Bradley\ Manning', 'Chelsea\ Manning ') where headline_author != 'cmdrtaco';
and i guess on a personal level, i have to start saying, "a prime example of a capitalist dictatorship exercising its ability to persecute political prisoners is the incarceration of Chelsea Manning"
Good people go to bed earlier.
Yeah, this was a bad idea. Unfortunately choosing to make such a public statement on this will basically give the highly vocal Conservatives some more ammunition to use against him, basically in their eyes invalidating the stuff she leaked. While we all know that it's got absolutely nothing to do with anything, that's never stopped the highly vocal Conservative minority from making a big deal of this stuff.
The same people who were screaming for him to be hanged will now feel smug in their self-righteousness and will start finding a way to correlate this gender change with an ability and desire to fabricate the leaked information. This will then invalidate this entire process in the eyes of these people... and believe me they make a lot of noise.
The issue was supposedly raised during the trial itself, but for all we know (s)he has felt this way for years (as said in the article) and just kept it VERY tightly under wraps because of the demands of a military career. Now that motivation is somewhat moot.
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Says something about you that you consider it character assassination to discuss someone's [already known] transgender desires.
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Didn't work for Klinger in MASH, won't work for him either.
Tell that to androgen insensitive women who are xy.
You are no doctor nor a judge on the human condition.
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
All accounts I have seen indicate that he was starting to feel this way long before any of this happened. I have some Tranny friends (will be camping with them this weekend in fact) and it isn't something one just suddenly one day decide, or that people go crazy and decide to do....its usually accompanied by lifelong feelings of not really being "right".
Hell, I met one woman who lived as a man for years, never felt right, transitioned, and not till the age of about 50 did doctors find some small ovaries inside her. Had apparently really been part woman the whole time, never knew it.
This transition creates an odd conflict. Bradley Manning is a household name. He leaked secrets, he is either a hero of villian. He is a symbol.
Who is Chelsea Manning? She is just a woman going to jail. Nobody knows her. She is not a household name, not a symbol.
Maybe that works out in her favor in the long run? I don't really know, it is a bit of a toss up.... but we have been talking about the plight of Bradley Manning so long, I wonder that maybe this is bad timing, but, maybe there is no good timing.
"I opened my eyes, and everything went dark again"
I read about this on WaPo about half an hour ago, where I noticed they did an incredibly intelligent and thoughtful thing: they disabled comments. Now if only that were possible on /.
This is actually old news. NPR actually covered this months ago. I am surprised that other media didn't jump on this sooner.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
Good friend of mine is transgender, this should never even make the news. Transgender is a mental disease that should first of all never take away from the person, and second of all never be used as an excuse to justify someone's behavior.
Bradley Meaning's behavior had jack to do with being Transgender and bringing his mental illness into this is a shows a refusal to take responsibility and will only further alienate society from people who are transgender and have not committed Bradley Manning's crimes.
Well that explains why he couldn't keep a secret...
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Why is the gender choice or alignment or preference or whatever of Manning even relevant to any of the current discussions, and why of all things it it relevant here? Sigh....
Associated Press — FORT MEADE, Md. — The text of U.S. Army Pfc. Bradley Manning’s statement that will be sent to the president, as read by defense attorney David Coombs following Manning’s sentencing Wednesday, below:
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Manning's statement, in full:
The decisions that I made in 2010 were made out of a concern for my country and the world that we live in. Since the tragic events of 9/11, our country has been at war. We’ve been at war with an enemy that chooses not to meet us on any traditional battlefield, and due to this fact we’ve had to alter our methods of combating the risks posed to us and our way of life.
I initially agreed with these methods and chose to volunteer to help defend my country. It was not until I was in Iraq and reading secret military reports on a daily basis that I started to question the morality of what we were doing.
It was at this time I realized that (in) our efforts to meet the risk posed to us by the enemy, we have forgotten our humanity. We consciously elected to devalue human life both in Iraq and Afghanistan. When we engaged those that we perceived were the enemy, we sometimes killed innocent civilians. Whenever we killed innocent civilians, instead of accepting responsibility for our conduct, we elected to hide behind the veil of national security and classified information in order to avoid any public accountability. In our zeal to kill the enemy, we internally debated the definition of torture. We held individuals at Guantanamo for years without due process. We inexplicably turned a blind eye to torture and executions by the Iraqi government. And we stomached countless other acts in the name of our war on terror.
Patriotism is often the cry extolled when morally questionable acts are advocated by those in power. When these cries of patriotism drown out any logically based dissension, it is usually the American soldier that is given the order to carry out some ill-conceived mission.
Our nation has had similar dark moments for the virtues of democracy — the Trail of Tears, the Dred Scott decision, McCarthyism, and the Japanese-American internment camps — to mention a few. I am confident that many of the actions since 9/11 will one day be viewed in a similar light.
As the late Howard Zinn once said, “There is not a flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.”
I understand that my actions violated the law; I regret if my actions hurt anyone or harmed the United States. It was never my intent to hurt anyone. I only wanted to help people. When I chose to disclose classified information, I did so out of a love for my country and a sense of duty to others.
If you deny my request for a pardon, I will serve my time knowing that sometimes you have to pay a heavy price to live in a free society.
I will gladly pay that price if it means we could have a country that is truly conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all women and men are created equal.
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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).
Am I the only one who thinks there's a big possibility that this is just a desperate move in order to gain sympathy disguising himself as a member of an oppressed demographic?
Not that I have any objection, if I were in his shoes I'd be desperate enough to try it too.
unless they involve prison. Am I politically correct yet?
Speaking as a straight, cisgendered ( transgender people's word for "normal" ), white, and quite handsome man.........please lets not make fun of Manning.
He is a human being, some who consider to be a hero, who just happens to have problems.
Bradley Womanning?
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
jackson tried it right?
have you seen my sig? there are many others like it but none that are the same
I'd ask to be put in a woman's jail as well.
Sex is biologically determined.
Androgen insensitivity syndrome
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
Narcissistic Personality Disorder is narcissism taken to unhealthy extremes; it describes only about 1 percent of the population. One might argue that "being an asshole" affects a far, far larger percentage.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissistic_personality_disorder
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you shall now be referred to as .\
ambiguous Reuters report referencing a statement from the NBC Today pseudo-news talk show, that has very little now to do with tech? where are your standards now?
I read about this on WaPo about half an hour ago, where I noticed they did an incredibly intelligent and thoughtful thing: they disabled comments. Now if only that were possible on /.
The right thing here for slashdot would have been to not feature this story at all. It isn't about technology in any meaningful way. This was run just to draw eyeballs in and get people excited in the discussion. Being as pretty well nobody here is discussing the technical aspects of what Manning has been sentenced to 37 years in jail for, it seems to have worked well for its intended purpose.
Damn_registrars has no butt-hole. Damn_registrars has no use for a butt-hole.
Want to be candidate for Congress or Senate?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
What do you expect from "secret" kangaroo courts but a trolling?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
THE GAY AGENDA
XD
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
With this timing, I had to re-read the headline in my RSS reader 3 times to be sure it wasn't from The Onion. Apparently this isn't new information but it was the first I'd heard of it.
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
Its so nice that we get to see the personal issues of people exposed when we need to destroy them. We can get a lot of people on board this way. He could have sympathy from people who are religiously contemplative however when so many of their peers say he is an abomination then it only makes sense to go along with that line of thinking. Well done everyone!
Gender reassignment surgery helps someone "be who they are", and works very well.
If it helps, you can think of gender reassignment in the same way as a prosthetic for people born with missing legs or arms. Those people could "live in the real world" with their disability, or we can give them a way to achieve what they desire.
As for your "black/white" example: most people with dark skin *like* who they are, *like* their skin color, and don't see themselves as "suffering" directly because of it. Rather, their suffering is because some racist whites are *making* them suffer needlessly. It's a different thing entirely.
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He must have gone through some intense brain zapping and heavy drugs to start thinking and wanting to do this.
Indeed it we should know all of your dirty little secrets. As long as you are not part of the system that is.
(S)he probably walso ants to live as a woman that isn't in prison, but we can't always get what we want.
Yes, we should all focus on really important things like Bradley's gender identity and not wasting any more time on all that trivial information about what the government is doing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contents_of_the_United_States_diplomatic_cables_leak
Good to see priorities are in order.
There wouldn't be a "gay agenda" (as a concept, not an actual agenda) if there weren't bigots running about with an [actual] anti-gay agenda.
Crimey
Christine Jorgensen in 1952 was an American who was the first person to become widely known in the United States for having sex reassignment surgery—in this case, male to female. She had served in the Army before going to Sweden for the sex change operation. I think it was Bob Hope who quiped that "Christine Jorgensen was the first guy to go abroad and come back a broad."
Today's vices may be tomorrow's virtues.
What about France, Hong Kong, Venezuela, Israel, etc...?
Oh, and it's five US prisons. ADX Florence, Riker Island, San Quentin, Alcatraz, and Attica. Did you review the list? The including of US prison ADX Florence Supermax looks sterile, compared to the preceding burned & gutted cell in Venezuela and followed by a picture of blindfolded inmates in a Syrian prison which had 2.4k inmates executed 3 decades ago.
I have to say that I question the 'merits' by which US prisons are on the list. 'Many suicides' doesn't really have the bite of '2.4k executed by presidential order', or '111 killed in a riot'. Heck, San Quentin mentions that it holds 4k prisoners and has the largest death row in the USA, but doesn't mention WHY it's otherwise among the worst prisons in the world. I'd have to say that US prisons probably made the list more due to ease of research and the need to have 'USA' in there somewhere. They even had to reach further back into the past.
Also, multiple prisons from Venezuela, Brazil and elsewhere are on the list
I don't read AC A human right
Honestly,
It seems like this tidbit of info, coming when it has, is pitch perfect to make people stop listening to the Bradley Manning situation and turn the whole fiasco into a bad joke.
Isn't that just TERRIBLY convenient for the government?
Chas - The one, the only.
THANK GOD!!!
The timing seems... odd to me. Right when people are using this guy as a hero and poster boy for whistleblowing and BAM. Try to make him look "a little off in the head" instead.
Just seems rather PSYOP-flavored story. I'm probably wrong, but it feels that way.
I'll just chime in that while it's probably 45% of jobs TOTAL, a BCD(Bad Conduct Discharge) is different and actually better than a Dishonorable. Most of them fixed on the point that people with one are felons, so any positions that ban felons also ban DDs.
A BCD is a misdemeanor level discharge, a DD is a felony level. I'm not a military lawyer, but that's how I understand it.
I don't read AC A human right
Risk of jail? Worth it; it's for the good of mankind.
Risk of being so messed up I want to change genders? ah... somebody else can leak it.
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Heh, missed the original post and thought "Androgen insensitivity is still biological!", but went back and saw the AC mentioned 'determined by DNA', so you have a point. ;)
Yes, I'll consider a person with total androgen insensitivity a woman. It can be more complicated if the insensitivity isn't total, there's a surprising amount of grey area.
I don't read AC A human right
Nice try.
Nice try, and it might have worked; had Manning not released thousands of documents he never read as well as evidence of wrong doing.
And since he dumped those thousands of other documents, he loses his moral high-ground, and this statement is just a reflection of the same narcissism that he had when he released those thousands of other documents to begin with.
So fail.
The decisions that I made in 2010 were made out of a concern for my country and the world that we live in. Since the tragic events of 9/11, our country has been at war. We’ve been at war with an enemy that chooses not to meet us on any traditional battlefield, and due to this fact we’ve had to alter our methods of combating the risks posed to us and our way of life.
I initially agreed with these methods and chose to volunteer to help defend my country. It was not until I was in Iraq and reading secret military reports on a daily basis that I started to question the morality of what we were doing.
It was at this time I realized that (in) our efforts to meet the risk posed to us by the enemy, we have forgotten our humanity.
We consciously elected to devalue human life both in Iraq and Afghanistan. When we engaged those that we perceived were the enemy, we sometimes killed innocent civilians. Whenever we killed innocent civilians, instead of accepting responsibility for our conduct, we elected to hide behind the veil of national security and classified information in order to avoid any public accountability.
In our zeal to kill the enemy, we internally debated the definition of torture. We held individuals at Guantanamo for years without due process. We inexplicably turned a blind eye to torture and executions by the Iraqi government. And we stomached countless other acts in the name of our war on terror.
Patriotism is often the cry extolled when morally questionable acts are advocated by those in power. When these cries of patriotism drown out any logically based dissension, it is usually the American soldier that is given the order to carry out some ill-conceived mission.
Our nation has had similar dark moments for the virtues of democracy — the Trail of Tears, the Dred Scott decision, McCarthyism, and the Japanese-American internment camps — to mention a few. I am confident that many of the actions since 9/11 will one day be viewed in a similar light.
As the late Howard Zinn once said, “There is not a flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.”
I understand that my actions violated the law; I regret if my actions hurt anyone or harmed the United States. It was never my intent to hurt anyone. I only wanted to help people. When I chose to disclose classified information, I did so out of a love for my country and a sense of duty to others.
If you deny my request for a pardon, I will serve my time knowing that sometimes you have to pay a heavy price to live in a free society.
I will gladly pay that price if it means we could have a country that is truly conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all women and men are created equal.
With no previous history on this before now, plus holding him for several years, naked, with torture - - - do they have anything they could use against him (ie. blackmail)? To get this kind of confession from him after being sentenced makes little sense. And if the army were to say he had gender emotional problems before he was sentenced. . . . well if that is the case, why did they hire/put him in such a sensitive position? A lot of stuff doesn't make sense here.
What you're assuming is that he really wants to be a woman.
Just as easily, he could CLAIM to want to be a woman. He knows the military will not do this operation, but if he convinces the physiologists well enough perhaps he could be assigned to a womans prison anyway. This would have all kinds of benefits for him, the chief one being he would be in a prison not full of guys far larger and stronger than him that all hated him. If for no other reason alone that would be worth the pretense.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Good for him, but why should I (or we) care ? This is people mags material now.
...the fact that a soldier with gender issues was the only one with the balls to report those coverups... nowTHAT'd threaten some fragile masculinity.
we were mislead into thinking that he'd put up a bigger fight.
Why would he? One act of bravery on this scale is enough for two lifetimes. Adding an act of stupidity (putting pride above reason and risking the maximum punishment) would have accomplished nothing.
Let's hope Snowden doesn't do the same!
Snowden fled the country before the shit hit the fan unlike Manning who stayed put and faced the authorities on their turf. By your standards that would make Snowden the lesser man.
Which is actually a big disappointment for myself and others who supported him
Fickle supporters like yourself who retreat into bigotry because your hero doesn't live up to the unrealistic Hollywood template in your head must be an even greater disappointment to Manning.
Oh .. wait .... nevermind.....
I rarely read replies, it's my opinion and if you thought about your opinion a little more, I'm OK with that.
I do believe he was struggling with gender identity issues before this whole ordeal.
Gay or straight should not matter for a security clearance. Identity should not matter for a security clearance. However ***currently struggling*** with a major psychological issue should disqualify someone from holding a security clearance. Did Manning receive a pass due to political correctness?
To the "How can a nerd get a date?" question.
Seastead this.
...the conservatives will jump ship on the 'defending Manning' bandwagon. The only force stronger than supporting the leak of classified information is pure, unbridled, fear of what they don't understand.
I'd agree with most of your statements, but only because (referring to the USA at least) our legal system and law enforcement system have become corrupt enough that it's quite profitable to keep the prisons as full as possible. When you have mandatory sentencing including jail time for victimless drug offenses, for example, it means you're definitely going to lock a lot of people up who don't mean any harm and are in all probability, pretty decent folks.
IMO, if the system worked properly, you wouldn't waste the taxpayer's money jailing anyone for such crimes as prostitution or drug possession. You'd also not have felony crimes with prison time for consensual "sex crimes" (such as an older teenager having sex with a 15 year old minor).
If you started reserving the prison time for the violent offenders, with the occasional sentence thrown in for the repeated theft of large dollar amounts -- then I think it really would be much more of an "us vs. them" situation that was warranted. Govt. should only be locking people up if they pose a true danger to society ... not because it's viewed as a "good, strict punishment" that will "make people think twice about committing a crime again".
Didn't notice until you pointed it out.
Manning has a very weak labia on his upper lip (Thats the 'cleft' in the upper lip, right under the nose, not the fun labia an actual woman has). Classic sign of fetal alcohol syndrome.
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
Plastic surgeons can do shit for hands. If you want to know how old someone is that's had extensive work done, look at their hands.
Same goes for he/shes. They can trim an Adam's apple. Nothing they can do for man hands.
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
Me, I've got the triangle and I'm not currently transitioning, so I look like a short slightly chubby nerdy guy with a ponytail. But yeah, lots of trans-people (Including some crossdressers) look gender variant in "guy-mode".
I get "sirred" now more than I did because I toned down the "slip sliding into androgyny" for work purposes.
I've been female pronouned at drivers license renewal, while shopping, even on the phone which I consider hilarious because to me I don't sound "girly" at all. Though I've been told I tend to use a more female style enunciation and word choices.
And yes, it happened a LOT more when I was a young slip of a thing.
What, 600 comments and nobody says how friggin' lopsided this is? A person with big personal issues -- but not a war criminal -- gets 35, while war criminals walk the streets unmolested, get thousands for speaking engagements and even get in our Face the Nation. Bradley, Chelsea, whatever. Not fair.
I do not fail; I succeed at finding out what does not work.
And that's why you need to sometimes apply critical thought to both sides of a story. Sometimes, it isn't a psyop, sometimes truth is simply stranger than fiction. You should be skeptical of any possible knee-jerk reaction you might have to something like this.
It probably didn't come up because both sides were not really interested in turning this into LGBT situation. Manning didn't want being gay/trans to get in the way of his message, and the Feds probably wanted to save it for trial and not have every LGBT activist on their back leading up to it.
Now that he's safely convicted, Manning is looking towards making the best of the situation. I'd say this is to his benefit more than the Army's. He really has nothing to lose at this point and has the potential to get what he has been hoping to get.
Here is an example of a very articulate army officer in the Australian Army who is transgender.
It is very interesting and, I think, quite moving.
I offer this as information for those, like me, who are not transgender, but wish to gain some understanding of the complications and difficulties of transition.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPsYWN-mW-s
The fact that Lieutenant Colonel Cate McGregor is, like Manning, in the army makes it apposite.
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You may have noticed that we've been working on that lately...
Also, it sounds like maybe the guy was kind of being a dipshit. Medicaid probably would have covered his operation, but I don't know the details. The problem with Medicaid is you have to be destitute, so many people go bankrupt over their major medical problems.
W..w..W - Willy Waterloo washes Warren Wiggins who is washing Waldo Woo.
I mean... wow.
Narricism seems like a thoroughly unwarranted slam in this case and a major case of projection on the government's part.
I was just thinking yesterday that he gave the impression of someone that might have a little to tell but I wouldn't ask. Now it is confirmed. Is it okay to be straight and have a gaydar?
Manning is a confused nut. He obviously had and has issues. I could theoretically admired him and condemned him before I found out he was a nut case. (He's not a nut for wanting to be a women; that confusion is just part of his problems.) I have to put blame of those under whom he worked. You don't let a nut job (confused and troubled individual) handle and process classified information. You supervise your employees. I believe his commanders should be the ones in jail.
He was working with classified info. The moment he said he didn't want to be in the army his security clearance should have been revoked and he should have been moved to non secure work. It's really that simple.
P.S. I remember my short stint in the military a long time ago. They kicked me out because I couldn't do enough pushups. My MOS was 74D. I would like had the same access as manning or probably even better since all he did was have access at a terminal. I wanted to serve, had skills far beyond my MOS training and I knew my place and yet they kicked me out because my body didn't respond to traditional physical training.
Yes, the US prisons are clean and in good repair compared to the ones in poor third-world countries. But guess what? US schools and hospitals are also clean and in good repair compared to the ones in poor third-world countries. This isn't a review of hotels on TripAdvisor. The prisons are being judged for how humanly they treat the inmates, not whether or not they have bed bugs.
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Suicide rates among gender dysphorics are horrifying.
Zhou et. al. (1997) found brain areas that differ in size between men and women, and which had the typical female size in trans women.
Rational questions remain, but add that to the experiences of trans people who know their mismatched gender all the way down and can't change it, and it's a coherent theory.
People trying to live according to their below-the-neck settings and override their brain settings often try the discipline and fixed roles of a military career.
All our interactions with Manning will be with Manning's brain, not with Manning's chromosomes.
If the brain setting is "female", then "she" makes sense logically.
Gender dysphoria can start in early childhood.
Many trans people use the word "tranny" among themselves, and many experience it as a vicious slur if it comes from a stranger. It's best avoided in general.
I had to give myself a crash course when a large number of trans* people suddenly landed in my online life. Human gender identity turns out to be at least as complicated as anything else in biology and the details are fascinating.
I am sorry to defecate on anyone's parade, but nobody seems to question Manning's ability to actually be a woman? Womanhood is not a default state, and not a catch-all for men's failure to have a workable and broad enough definition of themselves. Cutting off your dick does not make you a woman. If he is unable to deal with his male body, what makes you think that he will be able to deal with his female make-over? Of course for the next 35 years he won't have to put up with the issues of rape (well, maybe not), -17% average salary for the same job, and never even being heard again on technical and scientific subject-matters. And of course his make-over does not include bearing and raising children either. Woman- schwoman.
I agree 100%. He went beyond just pissing off and embarrassing people. I was surprised at his relatively light sentence, and then it "came out" that he wants to live as a woman and be referred to as Chelsea. I don't buy this load of shit either.
D.