10-02-2014, 07:13 PM
As far as I know, Chelsea Manning lived only as male Bradley Manning up until his incarceration. But, he had been diagnosed with gender dysphoria years before and again last September. So, I have a feeling Chelsea Manning is going to win this case and be allowed to present herself as female and get the hormone treatment she is requesting. She is being represented by ACLU attorneys.
Snip:
Manning was first diagnosed as having gender dysphoria – formerly known as gender identity disorder – in May 2010, just days before she was arrested at the Forward Operating Base Hammer outside Baghdad where she was stationed as a US army intelligence analyst. She is now serving a 35-year sentence in military custody for crimes related to the massive WikiLeaks dump of state secrets.
Last September she was again diagnosed with gender dysphoria – in her case, the innate sense of being female even though her sex at birth was male – by Dr Ellen Galloway, chief of the mental health division at the disciplinary barracks. Yet despite making numerous requests for treatment, none has been forthcoming.
In July, the Associated Press reported that Hagel had given the green light to “rudimentary” treatment, but since then the only concession the military has made is to allow her to wear female underwear and sports bras. Meanwhile, she has not been allowed to express her female gender outwardly by growing her hair longer or through other forms of grooming customary for female prisoners.
She has also been denied the other pillars of gender dysphoria treatment, the lawsuit states, including specialist psychotherapy, hormone therapy and surgery to change her primary and/or secondary sex characteristics.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/se...-treatment
Snip:
Manning was first diagnosed as having gender dysphoria – formerly known as gender identity disorder – in May 2010, just days before she was arrested at the Forward Operating Base Hammer outside Baghdad where she was stationed as a US army intelligence analyst. She is now serving a 35-year sentence in military custody for crimes related to the massive WikiLeaks dump of state secrets.
Last September she was again diagnosed with gender dysphoria – in her case, the innate sense of being female even though her sex at birth was male – by Dr Ellen Galloway, chief of the mental health division at the disciplinary barracks. Yet despite making numerous requests for treatment, none has been forthcoming.
In July, the Associated Press reported that Hagel had given the green light to “rudimentary” treatment, but since then the only concession the military has made is to allow her to wear female underwear and sports bras. Meanwhile, she has not been allowed to express her female gender outwardly by growing her hair longer or through other forms of grooming customary for female prisoners.
She has also been denied the other pillars of gender dysphoria treatment, the lawsuit states, including specialist psychotherapy, hormone therapy and surgery to change her primary and/or secondary sex characteristics.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/se...-treatment