Chelsea Manning May Transfer to Civilian Prison for Hormone Treatment
LatestPrisoner Chelsea Manning may receive the hormone treatment she desires, but she must be transferred to a civilian prison to obtain it — and that’s where it gets tricky.
According to the Associated Press, defense officials said they are willing to make a concession for Manning, convicted security document leaker, to get treatment for her “gender disorder.” A number of military doctors have diagnosed her with gender dysphoria, the sense of being a woman in a man’s body. The next step, approved by the military doctor at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, was hormone treatment but that decision was “sent higher up the chain of command for consideration,” Manning wrote in a compliant she filed in March decrying her slow treatment. She said the military was delaying her ability to fully transition, and this is in addition to accusations of cruel and unusual punishment for keeping Manning in solitary confinement for almost one year.