Transgender activist Chelsea Manning wants everyone to know she’s OK.
Manning shared a photo from her hospital bed following a gender confirmation procedure. She also took the opportunity to condemn the Trump administration’s renewed attacks on transgender rights. The White House announced Monday that it is taking steps to make sure gender transitions are not legally recognized.
after almost a decade of fighting – thru prison, the courts, a hunger strike, and thru the insurance company – I finally got surgery this week ??????? pic.twitter.com/I7WeIrR8jP
— Chelsea E. Manning (@xychelsea) October 20, 2018
“Laws don’t determine our existence,” Manning tweeted. “*We* determine our existence – it’s our weapon, our shelter, our energy, our healer, our truth – we will keep moving forward – we will keep fighting – existence is *our* only law.”
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Manning has advocated transgender rights since her own coming out in 2013–while in prison for leaking highly classified information to Wikileaks. Though the former Army Specialist claimed the material exposed evidence of war crimes during the Iraq war and occupation, the government has always maintained that the leaks jeopardized the lives of American troops, diplomats and intelligence sources. She served six of 35 years in prison before President Obama commuted her sentence to time served in early January 2017.
laws don’t determine our existence – *we* determine our existence – it’s our weapon, our shelter, our energy, our healer, our truth – we will keep moving forward – we will keep fighting – existence is *our* only law ??? https://t.co/qBet8ccwpJ
— Chelsea E. Manning (@xychelsea) October 21, 2018
Mozo83
Congrats, Chelsea. You’re still a douchebag but I am glad you’re the douchebag you were born to be.
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She is a stain on our community. She put the lives of every Gay soldier in jeapordy giving the anti-Gay smcubags ammunition to “prove” Gays can’t be trusted in the military. Not sure if Trans woman can get, but I hope this vile crunt has a raging yeast infection every day of her miserable life.,
QueerTruth
The only “stain” I see is you’re ludicrous trolling argument and cruel comments.
orrine
Except there was a report from the government that found out that information she has shared didn’t endanger anyone
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F Queerty censors!!
QueerTruth
She served her time, so I’m happy for her.
I hope she continues her activism with a new found life.
Bob LaBlah
My burning desire to know questions to this publicity whore is who paid for the operation and how are you supporting yourself. Other than that this traitor to her oath can go strait to hell. When you join the military you took and oath to shut your mouth up. Its bad enough she not only couldnt keep her mouth shut but she also attacked several superiors because she couldnt get her way. It was a mistake to let her off that easy and only made people wonder what the next publicity seeking gay person in the military will do next. Hell, if she got away with revealing secrets and might end up with a reality show paying millions of dollars why should anyone else care about what they reveal if a Beverly Hills mansion equipped with a maid and dry cleaned panties are the reward?
Hussain-TheCanadian
I dont know who paid for her surgery not do I care; I’m glad she exposed the disgusting racism and unchecked murder that is quite rampant within the American military.
Not only is it bad enough that Iraq was invaded and occupied under a pack of lies, but now you’re going to call the people exposing the abuse and cruelty traitors? Plzzzzzz
TimothyBeauchamp
Ya know, I served on submarines with a high clearance and I’d agree with everything you said if we didn’t have a Commander-in-Chief who hands out Top Secret Code Word intelligence to the Russians like he’s passing out hor d’oeuvres. Until we can reign in Cadet Bone Spurs, I’ll just wish Chelsea well on her surgery. Also, anyone making the case she represents our community poorly, I would add it is apples and oranges. Do I think she deserved prison? Yep. Do I think we have bigger problems to worry about now that Trump puts our lives in danger by damaging our intelligence operations and releasing classified information to our enemies? Yup.
o.codone
@ Tomothy Beauchamp. “if we didn’t have a Commander-in-Chief who hands out Top Secret Code Word intelligence to the Russians like he’s passing out hor d’oeuvres”.
Oh, I thought you meant Obama and Hillary. My mistake.
KevInSD
He has a surgical wound in his pelvic area, which he will need to dilate to prevent it from healing up. That doesn’t make him a woman. It makes him a wounded man.
The best part of the Manning story is that it was a bisexual male, ex-hacker Adrian Lamo, who turned him in. It was a magnificent affirmation that – in contrast to LGB – there is no such thing as “LGBT.”
QueerTruth
Wow, dude. Is this what you do with your free time?
I feel sad for you. It must be very hard for you to live with that sick mean, callous voice in your head.
I hope you find peace in life
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Go the fcuk away…
gymmuscleboy
He is a real woman, as real as can be! And I am a little doggy! Woof woof!
Hussain-TheCanadian
Hows the 1950s kev?
glennmcbride
I support her and wish her a happy life.
nitejonboy
Thank you for your courage to do the right thing, Chelsea, and congrats on your surgery. I wish you a happy life.
ElPillo
Courage? She claimed to have done it out of mental depression. She is not only a traitor, she spiked all the hard working lgbt in the military who fall under her cloud of mistrust. She should have stayed in jail.
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QUEERTRUTH: pretty damn sure the only uniform you ever put on was when you’re 5 years old at Halloween until you’ve served and see how difficult it is for gay Soldier to serve any unit keep your mouth shut. I was a medic and serve in combat and it was incredibly difficult to gain the trust of the fellow soldiers because of being gay because I was a medic I knew I would never be discharged cuz we were so in need what Manning did was hurt every single Gay soldier in the in the country because some Hillbillies who never encountered a gay person before will feel that Gay soldier is untrustworthy and can’t be counted on in a time of need
dwes09
“She put the lives of every Gay soldier in jeapordy giving the anti-Gay smcubags ammunition to “prove” Gays can’t be trusted in the military. Not sure if Trans woman can get, but I hope this vile crunt has a raging yeast infection every day of her miserable life.”
As has been shown and stated here, she din not in fact put the lives of gay soldiers in jeopardy through the documents she revealed.
An intelligent person might choose to deal with the “anti-gay scumbags”, and those who instill their beliefs in them rather than focus their hatred on an individual who, while still acting as a man, chose to follow their conscience.
And you know, given the open presence of soldiers, sailors, marines and air force man and women in the Castro during fleet week; given the legal ability of gay and lesbian people to serve (until Trump managers to undermine that) openly; and given what I know from veteran friends who range widely in age (and were both enlisted as well as officers), there is a whole lot more acceptance of gay people than you seem to think.
Are we to distrust all straight people because some of them have questionable integrity? Black or brown people? Most folks see through that faulty thought process.
reesielover
Talk about mixed emotions–I hate what she did as a soldier, but I can’t stop thinking about how beautiful she is. I hope she is happy, but deep down I wish she didn’t have the surgery as I had such a crush on her beforehand. Whomever she ends up with is very, very lucky.
inbama
All coiffed, she looks like a young Cynthia Nixon with a peach-fuzz mustache, but in the hospital bed, it’s her old nerdy self but with long hair.
StupidBoy
Queer life has never been about “bending over” (pun intended) to the status quo and allow our straight, white, rich overlords to dictate to us about what is best for everyone because they “say so.”
“Because I said so,” is a basis for parenting, not for a government.
She spoke out against an injustice and is still serving a sentence for it. Death threats, trolls, anti-LGBTQ+ queers.
I realize a lot of men like to each other, but not like this.
o.codone
He was adorable as a male soldier. Now, not so much. Who want’s to cut their dick off anyway.