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Court Orders Military to Stop Calling Chelsea Manning “He”

HeadlineMar 06, 2015

U.S. Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning has won a court order instructing the military to stop referring to her with masculine pronouns. Manning announced her identity as a transgender woman in 2013 a day after she was sentenced to 35 years in prison for giving a trove of secret documents to WikiLeaks. Last month, she was finally allowed to begin hormone treatment.

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