worth noting that even as today reported it they misgendered Chelsea Manning.
This needs to go up to the front page, it's going to be the most important transgender story for a very long time, and if it encourages more transgender people in tech to come out or feel safer then that can only be a good thing.
What criteria make is the "most important transgender story for a very long time"?
Seems to me that he's someone that any community (especially a community of folks still fighting to gain acceptance) wouldn't necessarily want to be associated with.
A significant majority of the population thinks what he did was wrong (anecdotally, this includes a large number of people who _support_ Snowden's actions).
Additionally, he's been under significant emotional stress for the past few years. That significant ammunition for folks to say things like "See? It's just a mental illness."
Mental healthy problems are common amongst the transgender community because of how badly they're treated. To stigmatise Chelsea Manning because of mental health issues says more about those who would do it.
The reason the story is important is that transgender people are pretty much erased from the everyday media, this is something that the media cannot ignore.
The reason the story is important is that transgender people are pretty much erased from the everyday media, this is something that the media cannot ignore.
I don't mean to downplay this, because it is largely true, but in recent memory, the music media has been very favorable to Laura Jane Grace. Becoming Chaz has also gotten a lot of media attention.
there's a very, very long way to go. Chelsea Manning's bravery will hopefully go some way to opening up a debate about the treatment and recognition of transgender people.
I recognize that this could well be a a true and legitimate coming out, but I can't help but wonder if it's government spin or effects from the abuses he's suffered for the last three years.
I have no idea, but it that case, are you suggesting that her lawyer was somehow coerced into reading her statement?
Especially considering the trial just ended (ruling on the side of the "government") I would consider that sort of direct influence highly improbable, and that authenticity is more likely.
What I suggest is rather the possibility that Manning him-/herself may have been unduly influenced about it during captivity.
But even if the decision is completely uncorrupted I find it it is of some interest to consider how it could be used. Manning personally is arguably of little consequence to the power game now, but Manning's reputation and story is highly interesting to both those who would have transparency and those who would have utter secrecy. That game is still very much open.
I highly doubt it is. In the wikileaks movie ("We steal secrets") they publish a few excepts from the conversations that Manning had with Adrian Cuomo and s/he mentions it a lot. It hasn't really been a secret, but Manning has apparently decided to formally state it now.
I'm not aware of that conversation, but can I take it that it occured before Manning's incarceration then? If so that seems like convincing evidence about Mannings decision as such being free from undue influence.
I hope this isn't a flippant remark, but no, not per current US standards on incarceration of transgender individuals. This has been a controversial issue for some time now.
It wasn't intended as such, no. I wondered if it might have something to do with her timing. It sounds as if I may have been misled by Orange is the new Black.
This needs to go up to the front page, it's going to be the most important transgender story for a very long time, and if it encourages more transgender people in tech to come out or feel safer then that can only be a good thing.