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Manning to begin gender treatment

The Associated Press | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 10 years, 10 months AGO
by The Associated Press
| July 17, 2014 9:00 PM

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Bureau of Prisons has rejected the Army’s request to accept the transfer of national security leaker Pvt. Bradley Manning from a military prison. So the military will begin treatment for her gender-identity condition.

A defense official said Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has approved the Army’s recommendation to keep Manning, who now requests to be called Clesea, in military custody and start a rudimentary level of gender treatment.

The Army tried to get Manning transferred to the federal prison system, but officials said those discussions have ended.

Manning has been diagnosed with gender dysphoria, the sense of being a woman in a man’s body. Civilian prisons can provide treatment, but the Defense Department doesn’t have the medical expertise needed.

Officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly by name.

 

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