Wikileaks convict sues Pentagon over gender change treatments

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Pfc. Chelsea Manning poses for a photo wearing a wig and lipstick. Manning is suing the Defense Department for hormone therapy. Lawyers for the Army private formerly known as Bradley Manning and the American Civil Liberties Union filed the lawsuit Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2014, in Washington.

Wikileaks convict sues Pentagon over gender change treatments
By James Rosen
McClatchy Washington Bureau
September 23, 2014 Updated 13 hours ago

WASHINGTON — Army Pvt. Chelsea Manning, known as Bradley Manning when she was convicted last year for releasing classified documents, sued Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Tuesday for failing to provide medical treatment for her gender disorder.

The lawsuit filed in Washington asks a federal court to issue a preliminary injunction requiring that Manning receive hormone replacement treatment while serving her 35-year sentence at the military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kan.

Chase Strangio, a lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union in New York, said Army doctors diagnosed Manning with “gender dysphoria” four years ago but have not given her standard medical treatments for the disorder.

Gender dysphoria is a medical “condition of feeling one’s emotional and psychological identity as male or female to be opposite to one’s biological sex,” according to the Oxford Dictionary.