Posted on 03/05/2015 3:49:36 PM PST by South40
WASHINGTON -- An army appeals court has ordered the military to stop its regular practice of referring to Private First Class Chelsea Manning as a man.
The military had been asked by Manning and her attorney to cease the habit, but filed an official opposition to that request.
The Army Court of Criminal Appeals has now ruled on the matter, ordering that future formal papers filed before this court and all future orders and decisions issued by this court shall either be neutral, e.g., Private First Class Manning or appellant, or employ a feminine pronoun.
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That's a guy dressed up like a sheila!
“He is a man and always will be”
A. Lincoln nailed this point before a jury. There was an issue of semantics.
Abe said, “Suppose you’ve got a dog with four legs.
“Suppose further that you agree to call his tail a leg.
“How many legs does that dog have then?”
“He’s still got four legs. Calling a tail a leg don’t make it a leg.”
This illustrated his point and allowed the jury to decide in his favor.
I don’t think our 16th president would `get’ the 21st century.
“Military law is to law what military music is to music.”
How about “Crazy Pants” Manning?
...agree with the judge. I prefer traitor.
Im not up to speed with the politics of this case. But if the Army isnt violating a law or military regulation by referring to Manning as a man, then this Army appeals court is wrongly legislating such a law from the bench imo.
Manning has XY chromosomes?
“He” it is!
“It”... would be neutral.
What is it? Ping.
“neutral” - Okay, how about “it”.
“The court can magically change chromosomes with a wave of a gavel.”
Has he/she been mutilated yet?
The treasonous freak should have been paraded in front of a firing squad long ago.
My dog has been known to run around the yard barking until he is a little "hoarse"... ;)
I wonder how many tax dollars were used for this lunacy...
I’ll bet it’s enlistment contract says it’s a man. Was that fraudulent enlistment?
You are still trapped in the gender binary. They would be looking for a "suspect."
Yes, it denotes a gender, neuter. Of course, my father, a soft-spoken Presbyterian minister, not given to cussing, years ago when the rubbish of replacing sex with gender was just getting started, proposed that the right pronoun to get rid of “gender discrimination” was “s/h/it”. Perhaps future filings could take up his suggestion when a pronoun is needed in reference to Private Manning.
(Of course I’m still waiting for whoever set up the protocols so that an Army PFC with a security clearance could access diplomatic cables to be thrown in the stockade in a cell next to Manning.)
>> Stop Referring To Chelsea Manning As A Man
Ironic.
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