02-12-2015, 09:27 PM
Well, I guess Bradley Manning -- who was sentenced to 35 years -- will be completing his transition to womanhood as Chelsea Elizabeth Manning with taxpayer-funded hormone therapy behind bars.
I have no idea if Manning will eventually be transferred to a women's prison or what, and I'm not really sure why the DOD agreed to the funding unless they determined it to be life-saving medical care because he said he'd commit suicide without it. There are not many details on the legal process, not that I've come across.
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Defense Department officials say hormone treatment for gender reassignment has been approved for Chelsea Manning, the former intelligence analyst convicted of espionage for sending classified documents to the WikiLeaks website.
The officials say the hormone therapy was approved February 5 by the commandant of the U.S. Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, where Manning is serving a 35 year sentence.
The treatment would enable the Army private formerly known as Bradley Manning to make the transition to a woman.
A lawsuit filed in September claimed Manning was at a high risk of suicide unless she received more focused treatment for the sense of being a woman in a man's body, or vice versa.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/12...74392.html
I have no idea if Manning will eventually be transferred to a women's prison or what, and I'm not really sure why the DOD agreed to the funding unless they determined it to be life-saving medical care because he said he'd commit suicide without it. There are not many details on the legal process, not that I've come across.
Defense Department officials say hormone treatment for gender reassignment has been approved for Chelsea Manning, the former intelligence analyst convicted of espionage for sending classified documents to the WikiLeaks website.
The officials say the hormone therapy was approved February 5 by the commandant of the U.S. Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, where Manning is serving a 35 year sentence.
The treatment would enable the Army private formerly known as Bradley Manning to make the transition to a woman.
A lawsuit filed in September claimed Manning was at a high risk of suicide unless she received more focused treatment for the sense of being a woman in a man's body, or vice versa.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/12...74392.html