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I gotta say I was a little surprised to see that Chelsea Manning has written multiple articles for the news outlet Medium. They are pretty short. That a prisoner who supposedly doesn't have access to a computer is allowed to continue this practice seems a bit odd to me. I'm not sure what draws her more noteriety - being trans or the act that led to her imprisonment in the first place.
Most of what I've read thus far details her life as it is now and what she hopes to accomplish with her appeals and as a person.
What is interesting is that while the government allowed her transition years ago, it sounds like she is still required to meet the male standards of prisoners. This may be one clue as to why she attempted suicide not long ago. Without addressing the original crime that got her there in the first place, it would seem to me to be pretty cruel to force someone undergoing such a transition to have to maintain the standards of the opposite gender. However, it also seems wrong to allow a prisoner to foment support for herself and her case through a national forum. Other prisoners aren't afforded the same, so what makes her so special? I feel for her as a human being that she has had a tough row to hoe, but a lot of that aside from her gender identification issues are her own making. What do you think?
Most of what I've read thus far details her life as it is now and what she hopes to accomplish with her appeals and as a person.
What is interesting is that while the government allowed her transition years ago, it sounds like she is still required to meet the male standards of prisoners. This may be one clue as to why she attempted suicide not long ago. Without addressing the original crime that got her there in the first place, it would seem to me to be pretty cruel to force someone undergoing such a transition to have to maintain the standards of the opposite gender. However, it also seems wrong to allow a prisoner to foment support for herself and her case through a national forum. Other prisoners aren't afforded the same, so what makes her so special? I feel for her as a human being that she has had a tough row to hoe, but a lot of that aside from her gender identification issues are her own making. What do you think?
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1LT Susan Bailey - I agree that it is cruel, and she should be allowed to transition and go by female standards. However, she can have patience like the rest of us. I am still required to be in male standards, and I'm not a traitor to my country.
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SGT Laura Delgadillo
Idk, while we may still have to abide by male standards, we have (somewhat) the choice to leave the service. While I agree that what she did was wrong, she is there against her will and those standards seem like a double punishment.
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SGT Laura Delgadillo - I agree, and she should be allowed to transition as soon as possible. However, if there were a table of priorities of who transitions first (thank goodness there isn't), then people currently in active duty service should be allowed to transition before an inmate who will be staying behind bars until she is 60.
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She has a ghost writer that she talks to over the phone. Other people can do this but they are not a "celebrity" in the Tech world and the Trans world.
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CPT Pedro Meza
SGT (Join to see) - They deserted their duty, and for an officer that is failure of command. You are protecting the men that helped make Bergdhal which only makes more Bergdhals when you do not hold commander accountable.
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CPT Pedro Meza, Sir, no offense but that is horse shit. I didn't like getting shot at and thinking about my life may be over soon, but I was like all of the other combat vets in Vietnam, and stood my ground and helped my buddies instead of running out on them. This can't be blamed on his low life father, or his command, but the fact is, he was at a post for a reason, and was such a coward, he ran off and left his buddies one man short. I can't blame his cowardness on anyone but himself. What's worse, is Obama supports him too. He probably thinks Bergdhal is a hero for what he did. He sure hasn't pushed the issue to proceed faster, and for him to receive his punishment, he's probably not going to get.
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CPT Pedro Meza
SGT (Join to see) - He was a mental case that was kicked out of the Coast Guard, and one NCO reported him, this NCO did his duty and Bergdhal chain of command did not do their duty. As for being a coward, cowards do not go into enemy territory un-armed, only a mental case dose that. As for pushing this case faster you can not deny him Due Process, which with time will expose the failure of the first sergeant and company commander. That is why it is taking so much time.
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Yes the issues are her own making, but what takes place in a prisons becomes the issue of the warden making, so to answer what expectations are made of her all I hope are based on laws, because prisons fall under laws and standards of operation; warden's issues.
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