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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.
Are we talking about Manning or Trump?
You are welcome on my lawn.
Don't be ridiculous. Trump isn't suicidal.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
As long as she is on active duty, she falls under the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ). If the charge is violating military rules or regulations, she would be processed under the UCMJ. But, even for normal active duty personnel, many crimes or charges are handled by normal civilian courts if they do not involve other military personnel or occur on military property. The military has the option to process them under the UCMJ, but often just let civilian courts handle the charges.
Trump consistently acts incompetent, and needs a serious medical check-up to verify his cognitive capability to remain president or be removed for medical reasons (Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, or simply Dementia, etc.)
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.
Have you seen his diet?
Eat the rich.
He has the best diet.
Nobody has a better diet than him.
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It's a "tragedy" that her genitals may change? What, were you hoping to fuck her?
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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?
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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.
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Info the Israelis gave to us in confidence, that we very well won't be getting any more of in the future, because Trump is an imbecile.
The only people saying the intel was from Israel are the media and an anonymous source in the government. Yet we were told by the media only a day earlier that the Russians could reverse engineer the intelligence provided by the POTUS despite him never mentioning the source. In fact, according to the National Security Advisor the President was not told of the origin. Strange how the media can reveal the presumed source (nation state) of the intelligence but mere false rumours about the President telling the Russian Ambassador and Foreign Minister about the threat not the origin of the information is enough to get the media into a genital licking orgy.
You identify as transgender in your head.... Technically, your DNA puts your body in one of two genders...
You confuse gender with sex. Your sex is which dangly bits you popped out with, and is controlled by which chromosomes you have.
Your gender is an identity, and has a more complex control, likely related to a combination of genes on non-sex chromosomes as well as environment.
These days, you can change your sex (more or less successfully) without changing your gender or DNA.
At least Pence isn't incompetent. Trump has no fucking idea what he's doing. It's like putting a chimp behind the wheel of a jumbo jet.
Except that the treatment itself is gender reassignment, and it's effective. Example study:.
Example:
Example:
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?
Clinton wouldn't have done it. That's the point. Fuck it, Bush Jr wouldn't have done it. Can you see any President in living memory, except maybe Reagan (who had an excuse) doing this? I can't.
You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.
Excercise? Who needs it.
Intersex conditions (of which chromosomal reversals are a type) are surprisingly common. For example, genital anomalies occur in 1 in 300 births, with outright ambiguous genitalia in 1 in 5000. Estimates of rates of intersex conditions including non-visible traits are as high as 1-2% of the global population - about the same rate as red hair. Some conditions are rare in the general population but high in specific groups - for example, 0.3% of Yupik children are born with congenital adrenal hyperplasia, while 5-ARD (a curious condition where children are born seemingly as female but develop a penis and descended testes at puberty) is very rare globally but higher in the Dominican Republic - in one village 12 of the 13 families there had at least one child with the condition.
Males with XX and females with XY are just another in a long line of sex chromosomal abnormalities including XXY females, XXXX females, XXYY males (1 in 18-40k),XXXXX females, XXXXY males (1 in 85-100k), XXY males (1 in 500-1000), XXX females (1 in 1000), and XO females (1 in 2-5k). And it's not just changes in numbers or selections of chromosomes; the SRY gene (which is really the virilization cascade trigger, not the whole Y chromosome) seems unusually prone to migration.
So again: if you want to assert that Manning is XY: show us the lab results. You can say it's most probable that Manning is XY and get no contest from me. But chromosomal abnormalities are common enough to make arbitrary assertion of the claim as fact indefensible.
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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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"What's put in place" is their own tissue.
Male and female genitals develop from the same initial sets of tissues; every organ has a homologue (although those descending from the Mullerian or Wolfian ducts are degenerated to very small sizes in the opposite sex). The clitoris and glans are the same organ. Same tissue, same nerves, etc. Under the influence of testosterone, for example, the clitoris becomes several times larger. The shaft of the penis in women is bifurcated, beneath the skin, and not as developed - but still present. The labia minora and scrotum are the same tissue. Guys, see the line in the middle of your scrotum? That's where your labia fused. On and on down the line.
Where GRS has to make compromises is with degenerated organs, where the equivalent tissues are too small to be useful. For FTMs, the shaft of the penis is the biggest challenge, while for MTFs, it's the vaginal barrel. While the lower portion of the vagina is equivalent to part of the male external tissue, the upper portion is Mullerian, which is degenerated. Hence MTF GRS uses grafts (grafts also being used for natal females with insufficient vaginal depth). Also, while testes and ovaries are equivalent organs, and most cells in the body react to changing hormones by changing their behavior (for example, breasts develop in MTFs under the influence of estrogen, and they can breastfeed a child, just like any other woman), there's not yet a technique to change the transcription factors that affect hormone production in them.
In short, in the human body there are aspects that absolutely are reversible, and there are aspects that are not at present reversible with current technology. The techniques used to overcome the latter are the same as are used for natal-sex equivalents needing reparative or reconstructive work. Without gonadal hormone production, hormones must be taken artificially - but they are the exact same hormones as are normally found in the bloodstream, and cells respond to them in the same way.
Now, could you clarify why exactly you care so much about their genitals?
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what is 4chan? do they have a newsletter i can subscribe to?
If there are large numbers of 4chan users here, they are impressively restrained...
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.
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Black & white worldview... You know that's an indication of a personality disorder*?
In fact there's little difference between men and women _excepting_ the sexual organs themselves and people without functioning sexual organs aren't that uncommon. Just because you don't understand something doesn't make your crappy ramblings true.
(* well it _is_ true but most people like that are simply either idiots or assholes)
Maybe suicide rates are affected by the fact that they're subjected to constant hate spewed by bigoted morons.
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).
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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.
Treason is the only crime whose definition is part of the US Constitution. There are a horde of lesser offenses under which someone who has committed treasonous acts might be convicted, but a conviction for treason itself requires either a confession in open court, or two eyewitnesses to the same overt act of treason. Stands to reason that a bunch of people who had recently rebelled against the authority of King and Parliament would be a bit touchy about the definition of "treason".
It's a HUGE diet. A BIG BEAUTIFUL diet. A GREAT AMERICAN diet. And Mexico is going to pay for it.
Of course, the truth is that he's not getting any from his wife any more, so he's compensating with food.
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
Your suggestion has been proven not to work. And yet, people like you keep pushing it out of willful ignorance (how hard is it to look it up on the Internet?). You know that doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result is one definition of insanity, don't you?
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
There are many more comments about Manning's genitalia than about his/her actions. What is it with you people?
S/he did more than anyone else to disclose the obscene careless violence used by the US military in Iraq. As in the 1st Gulf War, the western media were largely controlled by the military, keeping them away from anything they shouldn't see. Manning almost single-handedly lifted that curtain and should be lauded for doing so.
Those of you harking back to the days when the US could bomb anyone with impunity would do well to consider - even if you discount the immorality - the long term harm to US interests caused by such actions.
Obama (who like every US President has been responsible for lots of deaths) clearly recognized the importance of Manning's actions in deciding to release her.