Calling Bradley Manning a She---Educate me DU.

[Orsino]

182. You've discovered that people who ask the question are automatically attacked.

Gender is at the core of our beings, and calling it into question is not easily tolerated.

Of course, anything other than instant, unquestioning compliance with an announcement of the terms of a transition is met by aggressive vitriol as well.

It's polite to call someone what he or she wants to be called, and so we should behave. However, to declare that there can be no third-person discussion except on predefined tems is ludicrous. I won't accept without question either the dude bro ridicule of a person in transition OR a press release from a political prisoner who may be mentally ill.

Manning's identity doesn't depend on me, on the haters, or on the white knights. Time may tell, but reaching conclusions now, from outside Leavenworth, is premature. We can call her Chelsea because she asked us to do so...and what she says next week or next year can take care of itself.