Ex-Sergeant Skewered on Pic of Manning in Women's Wear
ADAM KLASFELD, August 13, 2013
http://www.courthousenews.com/2013/08/13/60248.htmA former master sergeant who ignored a picture of WikiLeaks source Pfc. Bradley Manning dressed as a woman faced tough questions Tuesday.
"This is my problem. I've had signs of it for a very long time," Manning had said in an April 24, 2010, email to his then-supervisor, former Master Sgt. Paul Adkins. "It's caused problems within my family. I thought a career in the military would get rid of it."
This point echoes the thesis of "Flight into Hypermasculinity," a scientific study profiling transgender armed service members. The paper's author, former Air Force psychologist George Brown, found that his patients told him that they joined the military, in their words, "to become a real man," only to experience the return of their repressed identities. A copy of this study was found in Manning's housing unit in Iraq.
