Posted on 08/22/2013 6:43:10 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Bradley Manning plans to live as a woman named Chelsea and wants to begin hormone therapy as soon as possible, the soldier said Thursday, a day after being sentenced to 35 years in prison for sending classified material to WikiLeaks.
Manning announced the decision in a written statement provided to NBC's "Today" show, asking supporters to refer to him by his new name and the feminine pronoun. The statement was signed "Chelsea E. Manning."
"As I transition into this next phase of my life, I want everyone to know the real me. 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," the statement read.
Manning's defense attorney David Coombs told "Today" in an interview that he is hoping officials at the military prison in Fort Leavenworth, Kan., will accommodate Manning's request for hormone therapy.
"If Fort Leavenworth does not, then I'm going to do everything in my power to make sure they are forced to do so," Coombs said.
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And they (LGTG’s) keep telling us that homosexuality is not a mental disorder.
He must have been accepted in the ranks after a physical exam okay by some transgender military doctor plus an okay mental evaluation by the likes of licensed psychiatrist Major Hasan, the Fort Hood terrorist.
Under Obama, the U.S. armed services combination is now like a headless chicken running around the barnyard loosely supervised by perfumed-prince generals and a faggy commander-in-chief.
Leni
So true~~LOL!
I think the guys in the pen would actually prefer Bradley.
Klaus Nomi - You Don’t Own Me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-Yrg9xNSS0
for “Chelsea” Manning...please Rush, play it.
BTTT! Divide and conquer
Yes, the church and the gov’t - on the same path.
Maybe he wants to be a female so he is sent to a female prison, so he cannot be raped by male prisoners.
Chelsea can take his place and live as a man named Bradley. I don’t know what male name Hillary wants to use.
The taxpayers should be forced to pay for his hormone therapy! Why doesn’t he just cut it off. That’s cheaper!
RE: I don’t know what male name Hillary wants to use.
Hillary is a name that can be used for both male and female.
Saints and Bishops of the past have been named Hilary.
I was being sarcastic in regards to my first statement by the way. It’s bad enough that we have to pay for his meals. Now we have to foot the bill for this insanity. What a disgrace!
They need to stop calling this treasonous dork a soldier. If he is a soldier, it isn’t for America.
Bradley Manning did what he did to impress Chelsea Manning.
Sort of like the motive of John Hinckley shooting Reagan to impress Jodie Foster.
On another level, Bradley was an unconscious double agent who did what he did IN ORDER to go to prison in the hopes that he could meet the girlfriend/lover/self he felt was living and hiding inside him, the Mata Hari known as Chelsea E. Manning.
I had no idea this story would get so psychologically twisted/
See my #74 which I posted before I read any others. We are both onto something.
See my #74 which I posted before I read any others. We are both onto something.
Why go to the trouble and (taxpayer) expense of surgery. He’s going to have plenty of boyfriends in prison without it.
PLEASE tell me he’s not expecting the US taxpayers to pick up the tab for his hormone therapy and sex change surgeries!
Manning is a convicted spy and traitor. He has betrayed his command, his fellow soldiers, and his fellow Americans and will spend a good deal of time in prison for it.
So, to answer your question, sure! I mean, we owe him.
Nuts - McAuliffe, not Patton.
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