Geee Posted September 14, 2016 Share Posted September 14, 2016 Washington Times: The former Army sergeant serving a 35-year prison sentence for espionage will be able to get gender-reassignment surgery, according to a Buzzfeed report. Chelsea Manning agreed to end a hunger strike that began Sept. 9 to force the military into providing the surgery, Chase Strangio, an ACLU lawyer working for Manning, told Buzzfeed. “I am unendingly relieved that the military is finally doing the right thing. I applaud them for that. This is all that I wanted – for them to let me be me,” Manning said in a statement given to Buzzfeed via lawyers. Nevertheless, the statement by Manning, who like most long-term prison inmates has no obvious means of paying for the surgery personally, continued to chide the military for not agreeing sooner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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