Army Releases Photo of Wikileaker Bradley Manning in Wig and Makeup

[Amelia Pond]

I kinda disagree on that one. The trans community has known about PFC Manning identifying as a woman since maybe 2010/2011 (ish). I'd wager that's around when she "decided" on the name Chelsea.

Decided was probably a bad choice of words. This article was from before she officially announced that she is Chelsea.

The original post COULD be edited to be ambiguous (I'm not talking about the article, but the content of the original post) to say "PFC Manning" instead...

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Amy

[DriftingCrow]

I kinda disagree on that one. The trans community has known about PFC Manning identifying as a woman since maybe 2010/2011 (ish). I'd wager that's around when she "decided" on the name Chelsea. The original post COULD be edited to be ambiguous (I'm not talking about the article, but the content of the original post) to say "PFC Manning" instead...if you've read the articles, you'd see how much she didn't want pictures and other info of her pre-transition self out in the public.

The news section reflects (hopefully at least) unbiased reporting from news sources. She didn't come out s trans at the time this was written. While there was speculation on her gender identity it wasn't set in stone. The news section isn't the place to put our hopes and view points out on the world. There's other articles in the news section that discusses Chelsea's identity.Editing this article is akin to editing history. It won't properly reflect the timeline of events in Chelsea's life and trial.

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