“Chelsea?”… What happened to “Breanna”?
Note from Tammy: Does this mean he also has multiple personality disorder? Look, we all have one issue or another, in this case this is a guy who is angling for the best possible, most cusjy prison situation he can think of, and for this jackass, it’s spending time in a woman’s prison or being segragated away from the general population. This guy doesn’t have a “gender identity issue” he has a I’ve Been Convicted of a Serious Crime and I’m a Jerk issue.
Bradley Manning wants to be a woman.
The U.S. Army soldier sentenced this week to 35 years in prison for leaking 750,000 pages of classified documents to the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks said Thursday in a statement read on NBC’s “Today” show that will seek hormone therapy and live as a female named Chelsea.
“As I transition into this next phase of my life, I want everyone to know the real me,” Manning said in the statement. “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.”
The issue of Manning’s gender identity repeatedly surfaced in his court martial on espionage charges. A widely circulated picture released by the military shows Manning in a blonde wig.
Speaking in the sentencing phase of his court martial last week, Manning said that at the time he decided to leak the documents, he was “dealing with a lot of issues” — a reference to his gender identity crisis.
“In a statement, the Army said it “does not provide hormone therapy or sex-reassignment surgery for gender identity disorder”
He’ll just sue the Army with help from the ACLU and probably win. Because it will be ‘cruel and unusual punishment’ to live for 35 years in prison when he believes he is a woman.