Posted on 12/09/2014 9:51:03 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
We are told, by the legal system and the military, that we don’t belong. It’s time for trans people like me to tell the world something different: we exist
Chelsea Manning was transgender ‘in secret’ while serving in US army
“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice,” reads the oft-quoted line from Martin Luther King.
I am a young trans woman. And I can attest to the “long” part, but I hope the bend toward justice will soon become more pronounced.
There’s a lot of unfinished business when it comes to protecting civil rights for many people. That fight is visible in every story about activists pushing for comprehensive US immigration reform. It’s obvious when protesters take to the streets after white police officers kill unarmed people of color and face few if any consequences, as in the recent cases of Michael Brown’s death in Ferguson and Eric Garner’s death in New York.
The fight for justice for the transgender community is largely invisible to our fellow citizens, despite the rampant systematic discrimination of trans people – those whose gender identity differs from the sex they were assigned at birth...
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Moral and cultural relevance instead of judging everything on it’s own merits.
You are a dude not a woman
It went down the sh!thole of liberalism.
Bradley, you are a guy with severe mental health issues that are not being properly addressed. Instead, you are being coddled by nitwits who support your delusions.
BEAM ME UP Scotty! And make it quick!
In a saner time, Manning would have been properly silenced by a court martial and a firing squad.
Assigned at birth, oh please enough of this crap. You are a dude and no matter what you do you will still be one.
Son we are a racist sexist homophobic bigoted society, because he needs his sex change operation??? He feels discriminated against because he will be burdened with male body parts as he sits in prison???
Do the LGBT peoples really want a traitor to be the poster boy for the civil rights to have their sex change operations??? What the heck???
Ponder this - some people take this guy seriously.
An incarcerated traitor who wants to mutilate his man parts...and he’s the smartest guy in the room.
Sure, helped expose secrets and should face the firing squad for sure.
No you are a little sissy who never belonged in the regular armed forces in the first place. Someone should have slapped you and sent you to military school in the second grade where they would have taught you how to be a man before the perverts of the world polluted your mind.
You’re in inmate in Leavenworth and have no civil rights.
You are a man with a mental illness
Don’t fret chelsea. I’m a hetereosexual male and SOMEBODY is trying to further infringe on my civil rights on a daily basis. So dry your eyes there missy and man up. Or whatever. :>}
>>“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice,” reads the oft-quoted line from Martin Luther King.
Marxist sloganeering. There is ample evidence that “history” bends to nothing except the caprices of human will. With God’s grace we may get a ruler such as Washington or Madison. But God was sent packing a long time ago...
I read the whole article. Interesting how he touches on other liberal causes such as Ferguson and voter ID laws. He sure is trying to tie other liberal causes to his own.
Good point. He is serving a long prison sentence. You lose certain civil rights when in prison. Hopefully you lose the right to demand that your p$&&s be cut off. Geez.......
He’s a textbook example as to why sexual deviants should have no place in the military.
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