A judge has granted a petition from Chelsea Manning to legally change her name from Bradley, as the US soldier continues her 35-year sentence for leaking government files.<\/p>\n
Pte First Class Manning, 26, was convicted of giving more than 700,000 US documents to the Wikileaks website.<\/p>\n
She said in August she wanted to begin hormone therapy and live as a woman.<\/p>\n
The former intelligence analyst has been diagnosed with gender identity disorder by doctors.<\/p>\n
Judge David King granted the petition on Wednesday in Leavenworth, Kansas, near where Manning is imprisoned.<\/p>\n
“It’s a far better, richer, and more honest reflection of who I am and always have been – a woman named Chelsea,” Manning wrote in a statement following the ruling.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Yeah, well, a rose by any other name is still a traitor. Unless the judge also whacked off Manning’s sexual appendage, he’s still a guy. If I started crawling around my house on all fours and eating out of a bowl, could I be a dog? I’m really glad that we’re doing all of this important shit with our legal system.<\/p>\n
But, thanks for giving me another opportunity to use the photo a reader sent us from Manning’s first day of basic training.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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