Army: We won't provide transgender Manning with hormone treatment or sex reassignment surgery

[jmowreader]

84. I think he means military PRISON time. There's a difference.

I looked up the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network website to see what it says about transgenderism...

Transgender service members who are thinking about becoming more public or who begin to transition while in the military should be aware of the difficulties in doing so. The military medical system does not recognize the World Professional Association for Transgender Health's Standards of Care for Gender Identity Disorders and will not provide transition-related medical care. As stated above, being transgender is considered a medically disqualifying condition, and sex reassignment surgery and/or other medical procedures will become known by the military during the service member’s regularly scheduled physical exam. Because the military classifies sex reassignment surgery under “major abnormalities and defects of the genitalia,” once this condition is known by the military, the service member will likely be discharged. Furthermore, even if the candidate has not had surgery but identifies as transgender, the military considers this to be a disqualifying psychiatric condition, labeling “transsexualism” and “transvestism” as “psychosexual conditions.”

Also consider that Manning knew she had gender dysphoria before entering service, and in fact joined the Army to see if it would "make a man out of him." It's disqualifying for military service so we're looking at a fraudulent enlistment - a crime punishable by two years in the stockade and dishonorable discharge. Normally they just throw your ass out because preferring a general court-martial is a pain in the ass, but normally the dysphoric don't post hundreds of thousands of secret documents to the Internet before they come out. She's already staring down 35 years of scrubbing pots for the espionage conviction so they won't be sympathetic to her dysphoria, and are probably thinking, "is Manning sincere, or doing this to get his sentence overturned?" (Don't everyone come back "it's her! her! her!" I did that on purpose - the guys in green suits with little sculptures of birds on their shoulders still think of Manning as male.)

Manning's only hope is to petition for immediate dishonorable discharge and transfer to the Bureau of Prisons, which will provide the care she seeks. As long as she remains a member of the military, she's going to be assigned to Army Corrections Command, who will house her by birth gender...which, of course, is male.