Posted on 11/30/2016 6:44:52 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Chelsea Manning, the former Army intelligence analyst who is serving a 35-year sentence for leaking diplomatic and military documents to WikiLeaks, has had a tough run: She’s already served more time behind bars than any other whistleblower in history; she was held in solitary confinement for 11 months before her trial, which she likened to torture; and it took Army officials nearly 18 months after she sought treatment for gender dysphoria to approve her for hormone treatments, but she is still required to conform to male military dress standards.
The military’s decision in September 2016 to allow her to receive gender confirmation surgery, as part of its broader policy change that allowed transgender service-members to serve openly and receive coverage of their medical care, was a bright spot in a year for Manning that included two suicide attempts and, as punishment, another stint in solitary confinement.
That bright spot, however, may be dimming as a result of the election of Donald Trump. The president-elect pledged in October to review the military’s new policy on transgender service-members, calling it a dangerous act of political correctness. The man he nominated to be his national security advisor, Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, alluded to the policy during his speech at the Republican National Convention in July, suggesting that it was distracting the troops from their mission.
With the transition team openly determining what executive orders and departmental guidances they can rescind in the first 100 days and beyond, there’s every likelihood that the incoming administration is considering revising President Barack Obama’s military transgender policy—which would deny Manning the opportunity to have the surgery she desires....
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agree.
I don’t worry about just him, specifically, but the fact that just about anyone you supposedly trust can be copying/dumping vital information on wikileaks. I mean let’s face the most likely truth here. It wasn’t likely the Russians who got the e-mails off Hillary. It was more likely someone within her own campaign staff who betrayed the information on wikileaks.
Leave a new box of razor blades in his cell.
We’ll start calling him Frank again, or whatever the hell his name is.
It will be sewn back on first, then he will be hung and hanged.
Who GAS?
Give him a job in the Secret Service protecting Obama and family.
No such person so I am not concerned about it. There’s a MR. manning however...
Ummmm. Does anyone care?
He’ll have to use the men’s room.
We should not have let him pretend to be a woman while under the control of the military.
Sex change by way of 00 buckshot, followed by a similar blast to its face would be a good start.
We should not have let him pretend to be a woman while under the control of the military.
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It is absolutely insane for ANY incarcerated person to be able to take or receive ANY operation or drugs to ‘pep’ up their sex life or turn a he to she or vice versa.
NO way the taxpayer should have to foot these bills.
If anything sex suppressants should be mixed in the food to drive down the ‘drive’.
YOU HAVE NO RIGHTS WHILE IN PRISON
Don’t know anyone named Chelesea Manning....
Whistleblower???????????
He should be given a bottle of cheap vodka and a Ka-Bar, and told to choose wisely.
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