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Chelsea Manning

Chelsea Elizabeth Manning (born Bradley Edward Manning, December 17, 1987) is an American activist, politician, and former United States Army soldier. She was convicted by court-martial in July 2013 of violations of the Espionage Act and other offenses, after disclosing to WikiLeaks nearly 750,000 classified, or unclassified but sensitive, military and diplomatic documents, and was imprisoned between 2010 and 2017. Manning is a trans woman who, in a statement the day after sentencing, said she had a female gender identity since childhood, wanted to be known as Chelsea, and desired to begin hormone replacement therapy.

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Visibility is not equality.

Equality, Visibility

I think we can achieve meaningful change, but only if we demand that the institutions themselves change their behavior.

Meaningful, Thinking, Demand, Behavior, Institutions, Achieve

There are still many homeless trans folk wandering the streets. They are still harassed on the street by bystanders and police officers. We still face many administrative hurdles in every aspect of our lives. If anything, things are actually getting harder for us, because now there are people who are using our visibility as an excuse to say that we are already receiving fair and honest treatment, when the reality is that we are still in bad shape as a community.

Bystanders, Fair, Folk, Homeless, People, Reality

I think it's actually kind of sweet how there is a reciprocal effect that our stories can have on each other.

Actually, Stories, Sweet, Thinking

As a young kid, I spent a lot of time exploring the world around me.

Exploring The World, Kids, Spent, Time, Young

There are very few distinctions between el bueno and el malo en la prisión militar. Instead of the good and the bad, there is the boring and la repetición - the repetitive. The routine is as endless as it is numbing.

Boring, Bueno, Distinction, Routine

Sometimes You Have to Pay a Heavy Price to Live in a Free Society

Heavy, Live, Pay, Sometimes

I think the increased ubiquity of the internet and networked computing in general allowed me to have some tether no matter where I was geographically. I could log in to a computer from anywhere in the world and access the same information and the same people. It allowed me to transcend the physical differences.

Computer, Differences, Internet, Thinking, Transcend, Ubiquity

The press and free speech landscape has totally changed. There is far less news reporting today. Instead, we have this endless stream of - largely meaningless and speculative - analysis by sideline commentators and self-proclaimed "experts. "

Analysis, Experts, News, Self, Stream

I believe that the trans movement is at a crossroads. We have achieved an unprecedented level of visibility in the last couple of years. However, that's not the same thing as equality.

Achieved, Believe, Couple, Equality, Level, Years

I think that the next two generations of Americans will be grappling with the very real specter of finding themselves living in a new and bizarre kind of digital totalitarian state - one that looks and feels democratic on the surface, but has a fierce undercurrent of fear and technologically enforced fascism any time you step out of line. I really hope this isn't the case, but it looks really bad right now, doesn't it?

Feels, Real, State, Thinking, Time, Two

Day-to-day life is as simple as it is routine - though my days are often long and very busy.

Busy, Long, Routine, Simple, Though

Donations to my legal defense fund really help, and I think keeping me motivated and spreading the message are also very important.

Defense, Donations, Fund, Help, Important, Thinking

I really don't care how I am perceived by people on the outside.

Care, Don'T Care, People, Perceived

The most important people for me, at least in the last couple of years since I came out, are my supersecret trans friends and confidantes. I think I need to come up with a code name for this circle.

Come, Couple, Friends, People, Thinking, Years

I don't think that I'm embracing any kind of leadership for transparency or trans advocacy.

Advocacy, Embracing, Kind, Thinking, Transparency

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.

Begin, Chelsea, Childhood, Hormone, Support, Transition

I can only ask of those who care about me and the issues in my case to support me and spread the word about what is going on.

Ask, Case, Issues, Support, Who Cares

Disturbingly, the First Amendment, along with the Fourth Amendment - protecting against unreasonable searches and seizures, and requiring warrants - have been the major casualties of the shift in government policy in the last two decades. Unfortunately, I think that the biggest consequences of this tragedy won't be clear until it is far, far too late.

Decades, Government, Thinking, Two, Unfortunately

While being tossed around the world from place to place as a teenager, I wasn't really tethered to any place or anyone.

Around The World, Teenager, Tethered, Tossed, World

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