Posted on 11/09/2015 4:20:51 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
* Manning has been fighting for two years to be able to grow her hair to fit her female identity
* Military has agreed to allow her hormone treatments and speech therapy but draws a hard line on her hair
* Lawyer says Chelsea is caused 'significant anxiety' by having to wear her hair short
* Manning says being forced to keep her hair a 2 inches makes her feel like a 'freak and a weirdo'
* The former intelligence analyst is now planning to sue the army over the decision
* Manning was sentenced to 35 years in jail for leaking thousands of classified documents to WikiLeaks
Transgender whistleblower Chelsea Manning is suing the army because she 'feels like a freak' after being forced to have a two-inch prison haircut.
The 27-year-old soldier, who was sentenced to 35 years in prison for leaking thousands of classified documents to WikiLeaks, broke down in tears after the U.S. Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth ordered her to cut her hair.
Manning, who was born as a man named Bradley, claims she has identified as a woman since childhood and had been receiving access to hormone therapy, speech therapy and cosmetics while in prison....
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Probably her time of the month.
“Global Warming is real and Chromosomes are fake?”
I don't think so. When Bruce or Chelsea get their first period, call me, then I might believe.
Someone needs to take about four inches off tge top and all will be well.
Ditto
Yeah, how stupid is that?
It’s like calling that effed up Racheal what’s her name black?
Worked for Sigourney as Ripley, too.
Manning feels like a freak and a weirdo? Yeah, and....?
He’s in a cage. Stop feeding him.
Manning is a freak. What’s the point?
There is little difference in Manning thinking he is a woman or a penguin.
Trans-fer her to federal pen where she can be the bitch she desires to be.
The very last thing dear little Bradley needs is hormone treatment and speech therapy at the expense of the people he sold out. What he needs is some serious time-out so that he can contemplate that NOT having those things is the consequence of his criminal activity. Which is, I used to think, the point of a prison.
That said, manning is still military and subject to military jurisdiction while he is incarcerated at Leavenworth for the next several decades.
As such, he is required to have a military haircut.
The two inch long hair cut is way longer than regulation for male prisoners so he is already getting special treatment.
If I am not mistaken, Manning's two inch buzz is military regulation max length for women in some special job functions in an active combat zone.
The hair length may also be regulation for female prisoners convicted by military tribunal under the Uniform Code of Military Justice
Nowhere in the UCMJ does it say that male prisoners convicted of treason get to dress like drag queens so they can feel pretty and also feel better about themselves emotionally.
People convicted of the offenses Manning was convicted of are typically sentenced to years of working hard labor , not working out their feelings and issues.
He’s got a lot more valid reasons to feel like a freak and a weirdo.
Hang this traitorous weirdo. That will put a stop to its complaints. It CHOSE to betray its country.
Man up freak and you can be the “head dyke” on the cell block!
Trying to figure out why this is newsworthy.
And what he will look like when he gets out.
Well, she IS a freak and a weirdo. So ....
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