Chelsea Manning

Chelsea Elizabeth Manning is a United States Army soldier who was convicted in July 2013 of violations of the Espionage Act and other offenses, after disclosing to WikiLeaks nearly threequarters of a million classified or unclassified but sensitive military and diplomatic documents. Manning was sentenced in August 2013 toyears imprisonment, with the possibility of parole in the eighth year, and to be dishonorably discharged from the Army. Manning is a trans woman who, in a statement the day after sentencing, said she had felt female since childhood, wanted to be known as Chelsea, and desired to begin hormone replacement therapy. From early life and through much of her Army life, Manning was known as Bradley she was diagnosed with gender identity disorder while in the Army.

Born Bradley Edward Manning in 1987 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, she was the second child of Susan Fox, originally from Wales, and Brian Manning, an American. Brian had joined the United States Navy in 1974 at the age of 19, and served for five years as an intelligence analyst. Brian met Susan in a local Woolworths while stationed in Wales at Cawdor Barracks. Mannings older sister was born in 1976. The couple returned to the United States in 1979, settling first to California. After their move near Crescent, they bought a twostory house with an aboveground swimming pool andacres of land, where they kept pigs and chickens.

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