Posted on 05/17/2014 8:32:00 AM PDT by bestintxas
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has formally approved the request of Pvt. Bradley Manning, convicted for leaking classified documents to Wikileaks, to be temporarily transferred out of military custody in order to undergo expensive hormone therapy and surgery to become a woman.
Manning, whose taxpayer-funded request to change his name from Bradley to Chelsea was approved last month by a Kansas court, has been able to obtain repeated diagnoses from military doctors that he suffers from “gender dysphobia”; a condition of someone ‘discontented’ with the sex they were ‘assigned with’ at birth. It was first listed as a medical condition in 2007 by the authoritative Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
Two Pentagon officials quoted by WUSA-TV, the CBS News affiliate in Washington, D.C., claim the transfer orders were submitted because neither the Defense nor Veterans Department authorize such medical services, while the US Bureau of Prisons does. Pentagon Spokesman Rear Adm. John Kirby denies the claim, saying no decision has been made to transfer Manning to a civilian facility.
As the medical needs of Manning, convicted in 2013 and sentenced to 35 years in prison for stealing 750,000 classified defense department documents in order to disseminate them to Wikileaks, were being assiduously attended to by America’s defense establishment, untold hundreds of American servicemen and women suffering from genuine life-threatening and acute medical conditions have allegedly been left to die on at least seven waiting lists managed by the US Veterans Administration.
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If this is logical, then, I could get put in prison, ask, no, demand a face lift, and the authorities would have to comply with my wishes?
What is Hagel and the VA thinking?
While I’m not happy about it getting ‘fast tracked’ I’m OK with having his balls & penis being surgically removed.
The upside is after he gets “done” we won’t be hearing about it any more.
I would let him get his sex change. A month before he is to be released from prison.
I agree this is beyond the pale and what do I hear from the GOP? Crickets. They should be screaming.
All fag, all the time.
Current “wisdom” holds that perverts are such lovely, obviously superior people that they can get top priority.
How about drag em behind a mack truck.
Has anyone asked WHY THE HELL DO WE HAVE A VA?
Yes, I am shouting.
Replace the damn thing with a board of diagnosticians.
PTSD? $10k. Amputated leg? 50k.
Then let the vet spend the money himself for treatment, and allow him to keep a portion of the remainder, giving him an incentive to obtain cost-effective treatment.
Government-provided healthcare doesn’t work anywhere in the world. America is no exception. It hasn’t worked. It will NEVER work.
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