You evil Freepers don't want me to suffer from waves of desperation ... and you therefore shouldn't make moral or sociological judgments about whether or not I get standard medicine such as surgery and hormone treatments at taxpayer expense!
Posted on 08/23/2013 4:39:52 AM PDT by Zakeet
Self-castration, suicide and waves of desperation are byproducts of the denial of sex hormones to inmates yearning to switch genders, advocates say.
But outside the walls, debate has been stirred on whether the prison system is the right place to help chemically escort a man to womanhood, or vice versa, and critics question if any taxpayer money should pay for the hormones used to help inmates undergo sex changes.
Thursday's revelation that convicted secret leaker Bradley Manning wants to live as a woman and begin hormone therapy ignited talk about what happens when prison doctors refuse hormones to inmates with gender identity disorder (GID): depression, death wishes, purposely amputated genitalia and, for those already en route to a new gender, the return or disappearance of certain male or female traits — from body hair to muscles to breasts.
The Army does not provide hormone therapy to such prisoners. At the very least, this significantly delays Manning's plan to physically morph into "Chelsea" -- as he's been sentenced to 35 years in Fort Leavenworth prison.
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Transgender groups consider denying hormones in cases like Manning's "cruel and unusual punishment" and argue that hormone treatment for gender identity disorder is standard medicine and should be allowed in military prisons as in federal prisons. Manning's request may be the first time this has come up for a military prisoner.
But a large question remains among many critics outside the advocacy circuit: Should prisons be doling out sex-change drugs?
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You evil Freepers don't want me to suffer from waves of desperation ... and you therefore shouldn't make moral or sociological judgments about whether or not I get standard medicine such as surgery and hormone treatments at taxpayer expense!
This freak needs to be locked away. Now.
Brad/chelsea take care of it in 35 years.
Slap his pee pee.
“Self-castration, suicide and waves of desperation are byproducts of the denial of sex hormones to inmates yearning to switch genders, advocates say. “
Sorry. You were BORN THAT WAY.
OH? Doesn’t sound so good now?
The senior Senator from South Carolina needs to look into this matter.
So now this severly disturbed individual gets sympathy and support from those LGBT groups. He/she/it will get out of prison in less than 5 years, thanks to those whining groups.
Every single day I read something more outrageous than the day before. This is infuriating!!!
“...suffer from waves of desperation...”
Really!?
Either way... THAT’S something he should have thought about BEFORE he broke the law....
No one ever said criminals are SMART...and this worthless heap of social debris is proof!
Just look forward to being insulted. It makes the inevitable easier to deal with.../s
Side note:
The stare of America in 2013. Thank you GOP for ALLOWING liberals to destroy America. We elected you ro stop it and this is what your inaction, compromise and capitulation resulted in.
“Self-castration, suicide and waves of desperation are byproducts of the denial of sex hormones to inmates yearning to switch genders, advocates say.”
OK..., so?? Is this our cue to express sympathy for someone who waited until he was sent to the big house to decide he’s not a man anymore?
Bradley Manning is not a woman. Never has been. Never will be. Never can be.
This culture continues to descend into depravity. So now we have to be liberal about prisoners and getting sex change operations. Denying prisoners, who have been duly convicted of a crime, their sex change treatments, is going to be considered cruel and unusual punishment.
can you imagine such legal arguments being made even 10 years ago???
so now Manning’s excuse for what he did is that he is really a woman trapped in a man’s body. And we have to listen and accept this with a sstraight face from the MSNBC crowd. Now he’s a poster boy for sex change operations... Holy blank, are we descending. When do we hit rock bottom????
Ouch. I don’t even have a pee pee but that makes ME cringe.
His self serving letter to Obama besides,this man knowingly released information on Afghans who were working with us. These men are now marked and are being eliminated by the Taliban.
The Taliban is our enemy.
He aided and abetted the enemy.
He is responsible for the death of other men.
He deserves nothing.
Except a wall and a blindfold.
His sexual confusion is his alone.
He should be thankful he is still alive, end of story.
What a load of crap!
Or you could force gender reassignment on all convicts, I’m struggling not to make a pun on the penal system.
Don’t blame Manning. He had no business being in the military.
Starting to notice a pattern here. All these lefties are destroying the fabric of America and the administration is rewarding them.
Something is up.
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