kent
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Post by kent on May 14, 2014 11:28:31 GMT -5
Sorry folks but I don't think taxpayers should have to foot the bill on this kind of stuff.....
WASHINGTON - In an unprecedented move, the Pentagon is trying to transfer convicted national security leaker Pvt. Chelsea Manning to a civilian prison so she can get treatment for her gender disorder, defense officials said.
Manning, formerly named Bradley, was convicted of sending classified documents to anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks. The soldier has asked for hormone therapy and to be able to live as a woman.
The request was the first ever made by a transgender military inmate and set up a dilemma....
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/pentagon-oks-chelsea-manning-transfer-gender-treatment-n104916
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Post by djAdvocate on May 14, 2014 11:46:36 GMT -5
i am really surprised by this ruling, given the relationship between Manning and the military.
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Post by swamp on May 14, 2014 11:51:13 GMT -5
I can't imagine being trapped in the "wrong" body.
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Post by jkapp on May 14, 2014 20:16:03 GMT -5
Sorry folks but I don't think taxpayers should have to foot the bill on this kind of stuff.....
WASHINGTON - In an unprecedented move, the Pentagon is trying to transfer convicted national security leaker Pvt. Chelsea Manning to a civilian prison so she can get treatment for her gender disorder, defense officials said.
Manning, formerly named Bradley, was convicted of sending classified documents to anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks. The soldier has asked for hormone therapy and to be able to live as a woman.
The request was the first ever made by a transgender military inmate and set up a dilemma....
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/pentagon-oks-chelsea-manning-transfer-gender-treatment-n104916
Maybe they don't understand...approving it doesn't mean the pentagon gets to cut the guy's balls off  |
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Post by mmhmm on May 14, 2014 21:58:06 GMT -5
Nope. I can understand transferring someone for a life-saving surgery, surgery to relieve intractable pain, or surgery to correct a disabling deformity, etc. This is going too far, IMO.
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