Posted on 12/05/2012 10:07:21 AM PST by Salman
I’ve usually avoided talking about the trial of Private Bradley Manning, given that I’ve been directly involved with this situation before and I probably will be in the future. But I feel that certain recent developments in the case deserve to be addressed.
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As part of this phase of the trial, the court heard the testimony of Master Sgt. Craig Blenis, who acted as Manning’s counselor during his detainment at Quantico. According to reporters covering the hearing, Blenis stated that Manning had sent two letters from the brig using the name “Breanna”, and he considered this a reason to place Manning on Prevention of Injury status. Blenis claimed that this was “not normal” and “not stable”.
There is a history of some uncertainty over how Manning identifies. Prior to his arrest, he had spoken to a gender counselor online, and said he felt that he was female. He told his superiors in the Army that he had gender identity disorder, which he talked about in his conversations with Adrian Lamo. He also set up Twitter and YouTube accounts under the name “Breanna Manning”, and listed this as an alias when he was first confined at Quantico. However, the Bradley Manning Support Network have stated that he prefers to be addressed as Bradley, and when I talked with people who are in close contact with Manning, they all told me he currently identifies as male.
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Careful. Happens to be my middle name.
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This didn’t work to get Klinger out of the army so it shouldn’t work to get Manning out of jail. Breanna can sit in a cell for 20 or 30 years just as easily as Bradley can.
Ha! I knew that was going to happen. Thats ok, my full first name makes me sound like a princess. I just chose to be a bit more masculine and shorten it. Unlike Ms. Manning here.
Of course it doesn't. Why, you see transgender people walking down the street all the time. And look at all those transgenders the rich hire to be their bodyguards. And the stories about transgendered accountants at the big banks. Everyone knows they're as reliable as you or I.
Sigh.
The author is of the opinion that not every single person who is transgender is dramatically unstable or a suicide risk. I think few would dispute him/her on this point. It is no doubt possible to be transgender and reasonably stable in all other aspects of your life.
But that's not the issue the military faced. They had to determine whether his on and off trans-identification was an indicator of possible instability.
And obviously it is.
You get into a variant of this argument all the time with discussions about the danger posed by mentally ill people. Those who claim there is no danger will dramatically shout that "not all mentally ill people are dangerous," or that "most mentally ill people are not dangerous to anyone else."
As with the Bradley/Brianna case, this is no doubt true. It's also totally irrelevant.
The question is not whether every mentally ill person, or even most of them, are dangerous. It's whether the mentally ill as a group pose a greater risk, and how much greater that risk is.
Sheeeesshhh.
IOW, this behavior is perfectly normal for someone who is highly abnormal.
Wait, what???
Gender is genetic.
If you find yourself occasionally removing nylons, panties and bras, you might be normal, but if you are removing them from a male body, including your own, you are weird, perverted, sick and..... YOU ARE UNSTABLE. You might even be a democrat.
CHRISTIAN BIGOTRY: Zinnia Jones / “Don’t Give to the Anti-gay Salvation Army!” Posted on 11.26.2012 by AlwaysQuestionAuthority
If you care about gay rights, you’ll skip their bucket in favor of a charity that doesn’t actively discriminate against the LGBT community. The Salvation Army has a history of active discrimination against gays and lesbians.
Barf is to be expected with this topic.
Sex is genetic. Gender is a term for the manifestations of sexual identity, and therefore is subject to some manner of flexibility.
As can be seen in some forms of the definition, such as “the behavioral, cultural, or psychological traits typically associated with one sex”.
Gender was more focused on language; the use of gender-specific pronouns, or “gender-neutral wording”. At some point, maybe because people thought asking for one’s “sex” sounded too prurient, the term gender started being used as a replacement, for example asking for ones “age, race, and gender” rather than “age, race, and sex”.
“Sex is genetic. Gender is a term for the manifestations of sexual identity, and therefore is subject to some manner of flexibility.”
Liberal doublespeak gobbledygook
If you have XX you can’t change to XY through behavioral, cultural, or psychological actions. Heck not even through surgery can you change XX to XY.
The attempt to normalize abnormal behavior can only bring frustration to those who attempt it.
No problem.....hey, Brad Pitt (yes, he’s Bradley) might take offense, too. :)
False Identity Associative Disorder or something.
They deny the real world and now claim not to be unstable
lol
Man, woman, whatever. A traitor is a traitor.
This writer may be a nutcase, but he’s incredibly good with apostrophes, although a little weak on number agreement, as is typical with the gender-conscious: they can’t choose “him” or “her,” and therefore they match “someone” with “themselves.”
lolz... probably anal about it
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