README.txt: A Memoir

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On September 13, 2016, the ACLU announced that the army would be granting Manning's request for gender transition surgery, a first for a transgender inmate. [302] In December, Manning's attorneys reported that her military doctor refused Manning's request to change the gender on her military records to female. [303] Two months later, a Wired report from April 5, 2010, screams with the headline, “Whistleblower Leaked Video Shows U.S. ‘Cover up,’” and said WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange called the course of the footage “courageous.”

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Manning said the delays she encountered while jailed in Alexandria until 2020 were eventually handled, but it left longer-term health impacts on her. Manning, Chelsea E. (August 22, 2013). "The Next Stage of My Life". Press release. Archived from the original on August 22, 2013. As I transition into this next phase of my life, I want everyone to know the real me. I am Chelsea Manning. I am a female. Given the way that I feel, and have felt since childhood, I want to begin hormone therapy as soon as possible. ...I also request that...you refer to me by my new name and use the feminine pronoun.... Thank you, Chelsea E. Manning Even so, Manning continues to take her struggle to find an outlet as proof of a systemic problem. “We need to have more ways to talk about what’s going on in government,” she says. I ask what those ways might look like. “I don’t know what’s right,” she says. “I have certain values. I live by those.”The Alexandria Adult Detention Center's healthcare practices are consistent with and in compliance with national standards. Most recently, the National Commission on Correctional Health Care reaccredited our facility after finding it to be in 100% compliance with all applicable mandatory standards," the office said in a statement. On February 1, The Washington Post raised questions about Manning's eligibility to run. "While her case is on appeal," reported The Post, "she is on a technical form of unpaid active duty, putting her political campaign at odds with Department of Defense regulations that prohibit military personnel from seeking public office." Military law expert Eugene R. Fidell of Yale Law School considered it unlikely the Army would take action against her, saying, "Services don't like to create martyrs." [356] On February 2, Manning commented: "This is an issue that's cropped up mostly from the conservative blogosphere, and the campaign and we don't believe this is an issue at all. ... I've been issued a dishonorable discharge, and I'm not sure where the issue lies in this case." She also confirmed that she was still appealing her court-martial sentence. [357] On January 11, 2018, Manning filed with the Federal Election Commission to run for the U.S. Senate in Maryland. [25] On January 18, Manning filed with the Maryland State Board of Elections to challenge the state's senior senator, two-term incumbent Ben Cardin, as a Democrat in the June 26, 2018, primary election. [355]

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As well as these critical events, README.txt also covers Manning’s early life – and how the army appeared to offer an escape from a traumatising upbringing. But once there she was targeted by drill sergeants for her “slight, childish” appearance and subjected to homophobic insults. In this turbo-charged masculine environment, her struggles with gender identity (she would later come out as trans) became more pronounced: “[It was] less about being a woman trapped in a man’s body than about the innate incoherence between the person I felt myself to be and the one the world wanted me to be,” she writes.Despite the Department of Justice saying that there wouldn't be this issue, it became immediately an issue the second that we were in jail," she said. On July 5, 2016, Manning was taken to a hospital after a suicide attempt. [325] [326] [327] On July 28, 2016, the ACLU announced that Manning was under investigation and facing several possible charges related to her suicide attempt. [328] She was not allowed to have legal representation at the disciplinary hearing for these charges. [329] At the hearing, held on September 22, she was sentenced to 14 days in solitary confinement, with seven of those days suspended indefinitely. [330] Manning emerged from solitary confinement on October 12, after serving seven days; she said that she was not given the opportunity to appeal the ruling before being placed in solitary. [331] On March 11, 2020, Manning attempted suicide two days before she was scheduled to appear before a judge on a motion to terminate sanctions. [241] [242] Alexandria Sheriff Dana Lawhorne reported that Manning was safe and her lawyers said she was recovering in a hospital. [243] [241] Once word came down that Manning won her legal battle, she found that the men incarcerated alongside her were ecstatic that "one of their own" was successful in her fight against the system. On May 30, 2019, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces denied Manning's petition for grant of review of the decision of the U.S. Army Court of Criminal Appeals. [222] 2019 jailing for contempt Manning (left) in Brooklyn during the coronavirus pandemic in April 2020, forty days after her release from jail [223]