Yeah, I didn't write the event. I noticed taxating and figured the Chelsea Manning thing would be less well received here. I've got mixed feelings on the Manning situation. But there's enough there that I support the movement anyways.
Someone 'splayn something to me about Manning:
He's a guy. He gets convicted of many and numerous crimes, sentenced to a bajillion years in Leavenworth. Out of the blue he wants a sex change, and somehow gets that paid for by dotmilfedguv?
With him being unmarried, doesn't the correctional institution see him as essentially a sexless/genderless creature? Granted, incarcerated men and women are stored in separate facilities. But there is no right to reproduction or to sexual congress for inmates who are not married, and when inmates do get time with their wives it is because the law is respecting that the spouse was not sentenced to any crime and should still be able to continue with life if she sees the marriage as still viable while the man is in prison.
Why, then, does Manning get a sex change when he's going to be put away for what will probably be the rest of his life?
Is this some sort of self defense trick, to keep him out of male genpop during preop, then transferred to a women-only facility when done? He then gets to be chick-guy in an all women's prison, a non-lesbian lesbian?
