Bradley Manning states he's 'female', wants to live as ‘Chelsea’

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#FreeChelsea: Bradley Manning states he's 'female', wants to live as ‘Chelsea’ Published time: August 22, 2013 11:49
Edited time: August 22, 2013 12:20 Get short URL (http://rt.com/usa/bradley-manning-female-statement-843/)

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US Army Private Bradley Manning, sentenced to 35 years for leaking classified documents on Wednesday, announced that he would like to live out the rest of his life as a woman. The whistleblower has asked to refer to him by the name Chelsea 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. I hope that you will support me in this transition. I also request that, starting today, you refer to me by my new name and use the feminine pronoun (except in official mail to the confinement facility). I look forward to receiving letters from supporters and having the opportunity to write back,” Manning said in a statement, which was obtained by the Today show on Thursday.

The announcement sparked a wave of comments on the Internet, with hashtag #FreeChelsea appearing on Twitter, instead of previously used #FreeBradley hashtag.


Join me. Support #Chelsea (https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Chelsea&src=hash) #Manning (https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Manning&src=hash). #FreeChelsea (https://twitter.com/search?q=%23FreeChelsea&src=hash) #FreeManning (https://twitter.com/search?q=%23FreeManning&src=hash)
— Jacob Appelbaum (@ioerror) August 22, 2013 (https://twitter.com/ioerror/statuses/370513055186055169)

This is the boldest and bravest moment *EVER* for #Manning (https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Manning&src=hash) to claim her new gender identity. http://t.co/eV9SLFqiJ0 Infinite restpect.
— Daniel koolfy Faucon (@koolfy) August 22, 2013 (https://twitter.com/koolfy/statuses/370513797746008064) Throughout the sentencing hearings, Manning’s defense team have focused on their client’s psychological instability and gender identity confusion at the time of the leaks in 2010. A psychologist who spent time with Manning during his stint in Iraq testified earlier this week that the gay soldier struggled in a “hyper-masculine environment”.

Manning’s lawyers have argued that their client, who had already been in counseling over a range of minor issues, was allowed to access classified data while his mental state deteriorated.


Private Manning’s Gender Identity Continues To Be Speculated On Throughout Court Martial http://t.co/iLxFlKtvJf pic.twitter.com/1h4mjsiF2r (http://t.co/1h4mjsiF2r)
— Saeed Jones (@theferocity) August 14, 2013 (https://twitter.com/theferocity/statuses/367691601226641408)
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Bradley Manning, the Army private sentenced to military prison for leaking classified documents, revealed he intends to live out the remainder of his life as a woman.

“I am Chelsea Manning. I am female,” the Army private wrote in a statement (http://www.today.com/news/i-am-chelsea-bradley-mannings-full-statement-6C10974052) read on TODAY Thursday. “Given the way that I feel, and have felt since childhood, I want to begin hormone therapy as soon as possible. I hope that you will support me in this transition.”
Manning, 25, was sentenced to 35 years in prison on Wednesday after having been found guilty of 20 charges ranging from espionage to theft for leaking more than 700,000 documents to the WikiLeaks website while working in Iraq in 2010.
Click here to read Manning's full statement (http://www.today.com/news/i-am-chelsea-bradley-mannings-full-statement-6C10974052)
“I also request that, starting today, you refer to me by my new name and use the feminine pronoun (except in official mail to the confinement facility),” he continued in the statement. “I look forward to receiving letters from supporters and having the opportunity to write back.”
Manning signed the letter “Chelsea E. Manning.”
During his trial, Manning’s defense team suggested his struggles with gender identity as a gay soldier were a factor in his decision to leak. His attorneys presented an email to a former supervisor from April 2010 in which he said he was transgender and joined the Army to “get rid of it.” The email, which had the subject line “My Problem,” also included a photo of Manning in which he is wearing a blonde wig and lipstick. During Manning’s nine-month detainment at the Marine Corps brig in Quantico, Va., following his arrest in 2010, he sent two letters to his counselor using the name “Breanna,’’ Master Sgt. Craig Blenis testified at his trial.
"The stress that he was under was mostly to give context to what was going on at the time," Manning's lawyer, David Coombs, told Savannah Guthrie on TODAY Thursday. "It was never an excuse because that's not what drove his actions. What drove his actions was a strong moral compass."
Manning will likely serve his sentence at Fort Leavenworth, the only military prison for service members sentenced to 10 or more years, a Military District of Washington spokesperson told The Associated Press.
Coombs said he is "hoping" that Fort Leavenworth "would do the right thing" and provide hormone therapy for Manning. "If Fort Leavenworth does not, then I'm going to do everything in my power to make sure they are forced to do so."
The facility does not provide hormone therapy or sex-reassignment surgery for gender identity issues but does provide psychiatric care, a Fort Leavenworth spokeswoman told Courthouse News (http://www.courthousenews.com/2013/08/20/60451.htm)earlier this week.
In the U.S. prison system, transgender prisoners who have not had genital surgery are generally assigned to live with their birth-sex peers, but the military policy is unclear.

On whether Manning will seek sexual reassignment surgery, Coombs said "I haven't really discussed that aspect with her. Really, it's more about getting the hormone therapy, so at this point I don't know the answer to that."
Coombs told Guthrie that he expects Manning "to be out" on parole in seven years. "But I actually expect him to get pardoned," Coombs continued. "At least that's what my hope is, that the president will in fact pardon him."
Coombs said he doesn't fear for Manning's safety in prison, and that Manning will not ask to live in a female prison. "Everyone that's in a military prison is a first-time offender. These are soldiers who have done something wrong, have gone to prison and are really just trying to do their time and then get out."
In the statement read on TODAY, Manning thanked his supporters. “I want to thank everybody who has supported me over the last three years,” he wrote. “Throughout this long ordeal, your letters of support and encouragement have helped keep me strong.l I am forever indebted to those who wrote to me, made a donation to my defense fund, or came to watch a portion of the trial. I would especially like to thank Courage to Resist and the Bradley Manning Support Network for their tireless efforts in raising awareness for my case and providing for my legal representation.”

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'I am Chelsea': Read Manning's full statement TODAY



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Video: “I am Chelsea Manning. I am female,” explains the Army private via a statement read on TODAY Thursday. Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison Wednesday for leaking classified government documents.


On Thursday, Bradley Manning made the announcement (http://www.today.com/news/bradley-manning-i-want-live-life-woman-6C10974915) in a TODAY exclusive that he would like to live out the rest of his life as a woman. Below is Manning's full statement to the public:

Subject: The Next Stage of My Life
I want to thank everybody who has supported me over the last three years. Throughout this long ordeal, your letters of support and encouragement have helped keep me strong. I am forever indebted to those who wrote to me, made a donation to my defense fund, or came to watch a portion of the trial. I would especially like to thank Courage to Resist and the Bradley Manning Support Network for their tireless efforts in raising awareness for my case and providing for my legal representation.
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. I hope that you will support me in this transition. I also request that, starting today, you refer to me by my new name and use the feminine pronoun (except in official mail to the confinement facility). I look forward to receiving letters from supporters and having the opportunity to write back.
Thank you,
Chelsea E. Manning

[Cebu_4_2]

And NOW I can see why:

Read Bradley Manning’s Statement to President Obama Here


Below is the text of Bradley Manning’s statement that will be sent to the president, as read by defense attorney David Coombs just after Manning’s sentencing on Wednesday

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Intellihub.com (http://intellihub.com/2013/08/22/read-bradley-mannings-statement-to-president-obama-here/)
August 22, 2013

The decisions that I made in 2010 were made out of a concern for my country and the world that we live in. Since the tragic events of 9/11, our country has been at war. We’ve been at war with an enemy that chooses not to meet us on any traditional battlefield, and due to this fact we’ve had to alter our methods of combating the risks posed to us and our way of life.

I initially agreed with these methods and chose to volunteer to help defend my country. It was not until I was in Iraq and reading secret military reports on a daily basis that I started to question the morality of what we were doing. It was at this time I realized that (in) our efforts to meet the risk posed to us by the enemy, we have forgotten our humanity. We consciously elected to devalue human life both in Iraq and Afghanistan. When we engaged those that we perceived were the enemy, we sometimes killed innocent civilians. Whenever we killed innocent civilians, instead of accepting responsibility for our conduct, we elected to hide behind the veil of national security and classified information in order to avoid any public accountability.

In our zeal to kill the enemy, we internally debated the definition of torture. We held individuals at Guantanamo for years without due process. We inexplicably turned a blind eye to torture and executions by the Iraqi government. And we stomached countless other acts in the name of our war on terror.

Patriotism is often the cry extolled when morally questionable acts are advocated by those in power. When these cries of patriotism drown out any logically based dissension, it is usually the American soldier that is given the order to carry out some ill-conceived mission.
Our nation has had similar dark moments for the virtues of democracy – the Trail of Tears, the Dred Scott decision, McCarthyism, and the Japanese-American internment camps – to mention a few. I am confident that many of the actions since 9/11 will one day be viewed in a similar light.

As the late Howard Zinn once said, “There is not a flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.”
I understand that my actions violated the law; I regret if my actions hurt anyone or harmed the United States. It was never my intent to hurt anyone. I only wanted to help people. When I chose to disclose classified information, I did so out of a love for my country and a sense of duty to others.

If you deny my request for a pardon, I will serve my time knowing that sometimes you have to pay a heavy price to live in a free society. I will gladly pay that price if it means we could have a country that is truly conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all women and men are created equal.

[Son-of-Liberty]

You guys think any of this shit is true?

[sirgonzo420]

You guys think any of this shit is true?

Could be.

Some people feel like a woman in a man's body.

Those people are confused.

Bradley Manning may be one of those confused people.

Even if he weren't all fucked up before now, he likely is now.

[.41Dave]

You guys think any of this shit is true?

Who knows? Even if it is, there's a good chance it was deliberately induced by the government's MKUltra types. they've had plenty of time to destroy his mental state.

[Son-of-Liberty]

Who knows? Even if it is, there's a good chance it was deliberately induced by the government's MKUltra types. they've had plenty of time to destroy his mental state.

They could already be spiking his food with female hormones for all we know.

[gunDriller]

Who knows? Even if it is, there's a good chance it was deliberately induced by the government's MKUltra types. they've had plenty of time to destroy his mental state.

they've spent about 5 years trying to break him down.

considering what he's been through, he seems very stable.


the transgender thing seems like a side-show.

[Son-of-Liberty]

Would be the perfect thing to do before he has an accident in jail. Ruin his rep then he meets an untimely end.

[Libertytree]

This is the pic that's with the story at Faux.


5255

[madfranks]

Who knows? Even if it is, there's a good chance it was deliberately induced by the government's MKUltra types. they've had plenty of time to destroy his mental state.

I agree with you. Only God knows what kind of "treatments" he was subjected to during all this time.

[sirgonzo420]

They could already be spiking his food with female hormones for all we know.

If you eat food from big box stores, you are likely ingesting female hormones and the precursors to female hormones.

Yay 21st century! (heavy sarcasm)



http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=soybean-fertility-hormone-isoflavones-genistein

[Cebu_4_2]

I think it's a sideshow to hide post #4 above.

[Horn]

This is the pic that's with the story at Faux.


5255

That's alotta eyeshadow, someone must be supporting his habits.

[osoab]

They could already be spiking his food with female hormones for all we know.

All the saltpeter in the jailhouse water might be working wonders too.

[Cebu_4_2]

All the saltpeter in the jailhouse water might be working wonders too.

Almost worthy of it's own thread...

[Twisted Titan]

This man wiill be locked up for the rest of his life.

They can say he said anything


Look what they did to chris dorner

[gunDriller]

does this mean he's going to get 'the surgery' - or just take hormones and walk around in a dress ?

[Shami-Amourae]

It's all propaganda in my opinion. Why is the picture of "him" as a female all grainy and in black and white? Come on, it's obvious they want to demonize any whistle blower. This man is a hero. He gave up his freedom so that we could know the truth. The powers that be don't want heroes so they'll do whatever they can to destroy their character.

[osoab]

It's all propaganda in my opinion. Why is the picture of "him" as a female all grainy and in black and white? Come on, it's obvious they want to demonize any whistle blower. This man is a hero. He gave up his freedom so that we could know the truth. The powers that be don't want heroes so they'll do whatever they can to destroy their character.

It occurred to me after hearing this farce of news that he may been the setup patsy all along. What if Manning was actually working for tptb?

I take one thing from this whole affair. Guy gets punished by government for revealing illegal/immoral acts done by government. The government that did this immoral acts gets no punishment. Government gets more people to side against wikileaks (I do think they are co by the way) and similar groups. Then make the current patsy look even more foolish by this type of stunt. This turn of events paints those that disagree with governments actions as complete looney.

Manning was either in on it or steered to this exact conclusion imho.

[Serpo]

It will be interesting to see what "he" looks like in fishnets and suspenders............

[Libertytree]

They're turning the public against him with this kind of headline.

Will taxpayers foot bill to help WikiLeaker become a woman? (http://video.foxnews.com/v/2623095932001/will-taxpayers-foot-bill-to-help-wikileaker-become-a-woman/)

[ShortJohnSilver]

Would he be safer in a woman's prison , perhaps?

Then again, they had a lot of time to subject him to psychological torture.

[General of Darkness]

Retracted comment.

[Libertytree]

what a fag.

General, there ain't no tellin what those sick fuckers have done to that poor bastard, they probably could have made him believe he was a chicken.

[General of Darkness]

General, there ain't no tellin what those sick fuckers have done to that poor bastard, they probably could have made him believe he was a chicken.

Valid point LT. I retract my previous comment.

[osoab]

Retracted comment.

He's still a fag. :D

[Libertytree]

He's still a fag. :D

Technically if he just wants to dress up as woman but still wants women then is he really a fag?

[osoab]

Technically if he just wants to dress up as woman but still wants women then is he really a fag?

All in all I just think this is just the latest turn in this psyop.

[Cebu_4_2]

Technically if he just wants to dress up as woman but still wants women then is he really a fag?

If I get really drunk and fall down at the bar and nobody saw me, did I really fall?

[Horn]

Technically if he just wants to dress up as woman but still wants women then is he really a fag?

Yes, that makes him even more of a fag, than a homo.

The photo is suspect.

[Serpo]

Technically if he just wants to dress up as woman but still wants women then is he really a fag?

He becomes a Lesbian on a technicality........

[Glass]

unfortunately they can make you believe all sorts of things and you won't even know it. They either make this up as part of the character assasintation or he's going to be someones slave bitch until they snuff him.

[Jewboo]

THE THREE FAMOUS WHISTLE-BLOWERS:

Julian Assange accused Rapist (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2193641/Julian-Assange-rape-claim-Is-photo-clear-him.html)

Edward Snowden commie now in Russia

Bradley Manning admitted transgendered freak (http://www.yourhoustonnews.com/courier/news/bradley-manning-wants-to-live-as-a-woman/article_cbb0b48f-8e6d-57be-9b50-7b2929b7fcad.html)


:rolleyes: Government Message: Only Sex Perverts and Commies are Whistle-Blowers...so don't self-expose yourself to the world as one




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Another pervert stole our national secrets



And don't forget THIS (http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/08/19/213429697/u-k-puppets-detained-his-partner-nsa-leak-reporter-says) homo who reported the story...

[gunDriller]

He becomes a Lesbian on a technicality........

if he's got a man's hard ware and interfaces with a woman and her soft ware, i would call that heterosexual sex.

it doesn't matter if he has his ears extended so he looks like a bunny rabbit.


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[collector]

If I was facing 35 years in prison, I'd do anything I could to get placed in a women's detention facility ;)