- Manning is a traitor.
- Being transgender did not make Manning into a traitor. After all,
- 90+% of all traitors are cisgender.
- There are plenty of non-treasonous transgender folk with security clearances out there.
- Former Navy SEAL Kristin Beck, for example.
- Manning is, however, pretty obviously unstable, as I'd like to think most folks wouldn't betray their country for attention.
- Pretty obviously, whomever investigated Manning for a security clearance did not dig nearly as deeply as was necessary.
- In Burospeak, "Mistakes were made."
- I suppose it could be argued that this instability made Manning transgender. I admit this is possible.
- However, I do not accept the reverse -- that being transgender made Manning unstable.
- See, again, Kristin Beck.
- For all I know, this could be a ploy by Manning to get out of a harsh sentence.
- Regardless, I am in complete agreement with the Army that being transgender does not entitle him* to special treatment, because
- Prisoners should't get special treatment, period;
- Gender reassignment is an elective surgery, and you don't get those in prison; and
- Fuck the fucking traitor right in his fucking treasonous ass.
- Roberta X has an interesting take on this subject, and I'm embarrassed that it never occurred to me. When I said "Fuck the fucking traitor right in his fucking treasonous ass," I meant it figuratively; 35 years in prison does not mean 35 years of rape.
- So okay, keep him in the "sexually different prisoner" wing. That's fine.
- But he still doesn't deserve surgery, which is where I think this is headed.
- He can pay for it on his own dime, when he gets out of prison.
- So can we just go back to loathing this traitor as a traitor and not bring the transgender issue into it?
- It's about as relevant to his crime as his race, gender, or shoe size is.
- Before someone gets all uptight about "patriarchy" or "oppression", I'd like to tell them to check your respiratory privilege. People died because of Manning.
- Thank you, and goodnight.
* I'm using this pronoun because he doesn't deserve my respect or courtesy.
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