{"id":58226,"date":"2015-02-13T08:30:35","date_gmt":"2015-02-13T13:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=58226"},"modified":"2015-02-13T08:04:06","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T13:04:06","slug":"manning-goes-to-the-chop-shop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=58226","title":{"rendered":"Manning goes to the chop shop"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m sure this wasn’t included in the Military Retirement and Compensation Modernization Commission report, but apparently, according to links<\/a> sent to us by Andy11M, Ex-PH2 and Hondo, the Army has approved Manning’s trip to the alteration shop;<\/p>\n

Defense Department officials said Thursday that the hormone therapy was approved Feb. 5 by Col. Erica Nelson, commandant of the U.S. Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, where Manning is serving a 35-year sentence.<\/p>\n

The treatment would enable the Army private formerly known as Bradley Manning to make the transition to a woman. Manning changed her legal name in April 2014.<\/p>\n

The officials were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity. The memo approving Manning’s hormone treatment was first reported by USA Today.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

No money for the health care of veterans who served honestly and faithfully, but there’s always money to throw away on criminals and social programs, I guess. <\/p>\n

The decision came after a lawsuit was filed in September in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. It alleged Manning was at a high risk of self-castration and suicide unless she received more focused treatment for gender dysphoria, the sense of being a woman in a man’s body.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’ll give the boy a knife to help him. He’s in prison, how could he be at high risk for anything? Don’t they keep an eye on those fellows?<\/p>\n

Whatever, go ahead, but don’t tell me that there’s no money to treat my service-connected disabilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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