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Chelsea Manning Set To Be Released From Prison, 28 Years Early (nbcnews.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from NBC News: Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning is set to walk out of prison Wednesday -- but she won't be entirely free. Manning's 35-year sentence for leaking an enormous trove of military intelligence records was commuted by President Barack Obama in January. But Manning is still appealing her conviction in a case that could take years, and the government has yet to respond to the appeal. And all the while, Private First Class Manning, 29, will remain an active duty soldier in the U.S. Army. She won't be paid a salary, and it's highly unlikely that she will be called to serve. But being placed on voluntary excess leave rather than discharged, says one of her attorneys, makes her vulnerable to new military punishment or charges if she steps out of line. Such an offense could be anything from getting into a fistfight to revealing previously unreleased classified information. Manning could even get into trouble with the military for speaking and writing. The Army private then known as Bradley Manning was just 22-year-old when she leaked nearly 750,000 military files and cables to WikiLeaks. Manning was court-martialed and sentenced in 2013 to 35 years in prison, with opportunity for parole after seven years served. n a statement given to the TODAY show the day after sentencing, Manning came out as a transgender woman. Last Tuesday, in Manning's first official statement about her plans after prison, she said, "I can see a future for myself as Chelsea."
This is a happy day amidst troubled times. Thanks Chelsea, for having done the right thing, and thanks Obama.
Manning discovered widespread corruption, deeply unethical behavior and absolutely unacceptable conduct, and she decided to let fundamental human rights and dignity overrule artificial power structures, so she exposed the lies, and of course the liars punished her.
It must have taken immense bravery, and we should admire her, not attack her.
Eat the rich.
7 years too late.
So indiscriminantly dumping thousands of classified communications in an active warzone is "OK" because you hate Bush.
But -- and this is assuming that the "narrative" is true -- Trump giving information to Russia pertaining to known terrorist plots to place explosives on civilian airliners that would result in the murder of innocent civilians is somehow "immoral" because wanting to protect civilians is evil now because Trump?
AntiFA: An abbreviation for Anti First Amendment.
...giving information to Russia pertaining to known terrorist plots to place explosives on civilian airliners that would result in the murder of innocent civilians is somehow "immoral" because wanting to protect civilians is evil now because Trump?
No, not "because Trump." It's because he isn't Clinton. This would be exactly the same response if any other non-Clinton candidate had won and done the same thing. If a Clinton had won and done this, it would be the wisest act of diplomacy ever.
1) When did you do a DNA test? Because there's plenty of people who are anatomically male who are XX, and anatomically female who are XY. Odds are high that she's XY, but there's certainly no guarantee. You cannot simply assert "she's XY" as a fact without a test.
2) Is that how you interact with people - going around insisting on DNA tests with them before you can figure out how to proceed? And if so, do you demand DNA tests only for just sex chromosomes (or just the gene SRY), or do you insist on other DNA tests first as well?
3) Why do you care so much what's in her pants? It's a bit creepy, as if you have some sort of sexual obsession with her. Who thinks about other peoples' genitals this much, apart from someone with a sexual fixation?
FSB hits! FSB hits! Your democracy dies. Do you want your possessions identified?
Slashdot is always flooded with teenagers who love to try to get a rise out of other people by posting racism, homophobia, transphobia, misogyny, etc. Plus some legitimate racists, homophobes, transphobes, misogynists, etc, but a large portion are just immature kids.
FSB hits! FSB hits! Your democracy dies. Do you want your possessions identified?
Except that the treatment itself is gender reassignment, and it's effective. Example study:.
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Etc. Etc. Etc.
You're wanting to withhold effective treatment, why exactly? Because it makes you uncomfortable? Is your identity or sexuality so fragile that you can't deal with existing in a world with transpeople, and as a consequence want them to remain untreated? Because that is the treatment.
It's quite true that transpeople have higher suicide rates than the general population both before and after treatment (although not the same before and after). But what exactly do you expect when dealing with family rejection, workplace discrimination, medical discrimination, parenting discrimination, huge medical costs that they have to bear unlike people being treated for almost any other condition (aka, they pay in their insurance premiums for other peoples' treatments but other people don't do the same to them) and (combined with workplace discrimination) correspondingly higher rates of homelessness, higher rates of sexual assault, higher rates of physical assault, pricks passing "bathroom laws" and the like, and general anti-trans assholery, e.g. like you find here at Slashdot?
Who thinks about other peoples' genitals this much, apart from someone with a sexual fixation?
People suffering from transphobia - a fear that they might find someone attractive but then later discover that they have the "wrong" genitals, resulting in deep shame and disgust. That's why the traditional portrayal of transgender people in movies and on TV is for a guy to date a hot trans woman, discover she has a penis and then throw up.
It's as if being attracted to someone, loving someone, is wrong and disgusting if you can't also insert your penis in your preferred hole. There are also a bizarre panic over theoretical fake trans woman rapists in bathrooms, let's not forget that.
The risk of this happening is apparently great enough (in their minds) to warrant all sorts of oppression and general asshattery.
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SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
Intersex conditions (of which chromosomal reversals are a type) are surprisingly common. For example, genital anomalies occur in 1 in 300 births
You have a very lenient definition of "common." 0.33% is not common.
He didn't say they're common. He said they're surprisingly common, which means they're more common that you might expect, not that they're common in any absolute sense (whatever that means, anyway).
Note to ACs: I usually delete AC replies without reading them. If you want to talk to me, log in.
Spoken like a true cave-man with zero understanding of the issue at hand.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.