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Army to Bradley Manning: No, we won’t pay for your sex change procedures
Life Site ^ | Kirsten Andersen

Posted on 08/27/2013 5:27:42 PM PDT by Morgana

WASHINGTON, D.C., August 27, 2013 (LifeSiteNews) – The U.S. Armed Forces will not be paying for Bradley Manning to alter his body to match his new, female persona, according to a Pentagon spokesman.

“The Army does not provide hormone therapy or sex-reassignment surgery for gender identity disorder,” Army spokesman George Wright said in a statement to Courthouse News Service. He said the military still considers Manning a soldier and will provide him with appropriate mental health care if he wants it. Bradley Manning now wishes to be called "Chelsea" and referred to by feminine pronouns.

Wright did not tell the paper whether Manning would be permitted to undergo a sex-change if he pays for it himself.

But Manning’s defense lawyer, David Coombs, told the Today Show that if military officials do not offer to arrange for the hormone therapy and surgery his client wants, he’ll bring legal action against them.

"If Fort Leavenworth does not [provide Manning with a sex change] then I'm going to do everything in my power to make sure they are forced to do so," Coombs said.

On Wednesday, the 25-year-old, 5’2” Manning was sentenced to 35 years in Fort Leavenworth military prison for leaking classified documents to Wikileaks. On Thursday, he announced via a statement read aloud on the Today Show that he intends to live the rest of his life as a woman named “Chelsea Manning,” and wants the government to facilitate the transformation.

“As I transition into this next phase of my life, I want everyone to know the real me,” Manning wrote. “I am Chelsea Manning. I am a female. Given the way that I feel, and have felt since childhood, I want to begin hormone therapy as soon as possible.” He also requested that government officials and media outlets use feminine pronouns and descriptors when referring to him, along with his desired new name. Some news outlets, including the Associated Press, have already begun to comply.

Manning’s Thursday announcement was not the first time he has claimed to struggle with gender confusion issues. Four hours of testimony during his sentencing hearing were spent trying to convince the court that his struggles with gender dysphoria, combined with narcissistic personality disorder, an alcoholic upbringing and borderline personality disorder, so destabilized the young man that he could not be held fully responsible for breaking the law.

As evidence of his gender confusion, the defense offered a copy of an email Manning sent a superior in 2010 with the heading “My Problem,” to which he had attached a photo of himself dressed in drag, with the filename “Breanna.jpg.”

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His former therapist, Captain Michael Worsley, argued that the military’s unwillingness to facilitate sex changes for people who consider themselves transgender could have worsened Manning’s mental state.

“There would never be a time where he would able to be openly female and so seeking treatment for that, again, the treatment would be helping you adjust to that. … It’s not treating it like a disorder … so that would be difficult to do in the military,” Worsley said.

But Greg Rinckey, a former Army judge advocate general, told the Washington Post that regardless of how Manning feels about his gender, the military will likely “take the position that Private Manning is still male. He still has a penis and hasn’t gone through surgery. If he fears for his safety, he can be put in isolation or protective custody.”

Rinckey told the Post he thinks Manning’s attorneys are just trying to help their client avoid the notoriously harsh conditions at the all-male Fort Leavenworth and serve his sentence at a federal prison instead. “The military has the ability to do that,” he said. “It is rare, but it can happen.”


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1 posted on 08/27/2013 5:27:42 PM PDT by Morgana
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To: Morgana

“...unless our commander-in-chief forces us to.” [wink, wink]


2 posted on 08/27/2013 5:30:12 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I aim to raise a million plus for Gov. Palin. What'll you do?.)
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To: Morgana

If they put him in the right section of the prison there are probably inmates who will perform that operation for him at no charge.


3 posted on 08/27/2013 5:30:23 PM PDT by Uncle Chip
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To: Morgana

They’ll cave. Obama will see to it.

What a deformed country we now live in.


4 posted on 08/27/2013 5:31:05 PM PDT by fwdude ( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
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To: Morgana

no need for a sex change as once he enters jail, he’ll be someone else’ “woman”


5 posted on 08/27/2013 5:31:17 PM PDT by max americana (fired liberals in our company after the election, & laughed while they cried (true story))
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To: Morgana

Obama intervenes in 3, 2, 1


6 posted on 08/27/2013 5:31:24 PM PDT by Viennacon
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To: Morgana
combined with narcissistic personality disorder, an alcoholic upbringing and borderline personality disorder,

And they still gave him an ultra-high security clearance???

Not to worry, Chelsea. Even without the hormone treatments, you'll soon be somebody's girlfriend.

7 posted on 08/27/2013 5:32:08 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: Morgana

Slam it in a cell door and call him Sally .....the Army Amputee !


8 posted on 08/27/2013 5:32:11 PM PDT by Squantos ( Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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To: Morgana
Still a "soldier?" I would have thought that they awarded him a DD as part of his sentence. If they didn't, they damn' sure should have!



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9 posted on 08/27/2013 5:32:12 PM PDT by ConorMacNessa (HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines RVN 1969 - St. Michael the Archangel defend us in Battle!)
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To: Morgana

A$$hole is gender appropriate. Wonder why the person who signed off on his security clearance isn’t sharing a cell with him?


10 posted on 08/27/2013 5:35:53 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Progressives are never accountable for "unintended consequences" .... just for causing most)
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To: Morgana

Yeah Manning ... go “F” yourself


11 posted on 08/27/2013 5:36:08 PM PDT by clamper1797 (Evil WILL flourish when good men WILL not act)
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To: Morgana
You keep your dingus, as a service to the other inmates. It's a convenient handle for your rapists to hold on to you with.

We're not completely heartless, though. While you won't get the surgery, here's some lipstick, nylons, lingerie, and a drum of lube...

12 posted on 08/27/2013 5:36:19 PM PDT by ZOOKER (Until further notice the /s is implied...)
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To: ConorMacNessa
Still a "soldier?" I would have thought that they awarded him a DD as part of his sentence. If they didn't, they damn' sure should have!

That comes after he serves his sentence. Until then he is an E-1. The military can not hold civilian prisoners.

13 posted on 08/27/2013 5:38:54 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Revenge is a dish best served with pinto beans and muffins)
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To: ZOOKER

make him go without the lube.

If he is really a female inside, he shouldn’t need any


14 posted on 08/27/2013 5:39:46 PM PDT by digger48
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear
That comes after he serves his sentence. Until then he is an E-1. The military can not hold civilian prisoners.

Thank you, Harmless Teddy Bear. I didn't know that. Now, I can cross another mystery off the list.

15 posted on 08/27/2013 5:41:24 PM PDT by Standing Wolf (No tyrant should ever be allowed to die of natural causes.)
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To: digger48

Choose the cellmate carefully.... Chelsea should get everything required....


16 posted on 08/27/2013 5:42:12 PM PDT by ptsal (Repubicans swallowing more kool-aide from Rove & Kristol)
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To: Morgana

I think we should give him a species change operation.


17 posted on 08/27/2013 5:42:14 PM PDT by MV=PY (The Magic Question: Who's paying for it)
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To: ConorMacNessa
I thought they gave you DD when you finished your sentence.

/johnny

18 posted on 08/27/2013 5:43:14 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear
Until then he is an E-1.

With all pay and allowances forfeit, if I recall correctly.

/johnny

19 posted on 08/27/2013 5:44:29 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: Morgana

It will be allowed in the future. Nothing is too sick or perverted these days.


20 posted on 08/27/2013 5:44:43 PM PDT by lormand (Inside every liberal is a dung slinging monkey)
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