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Chelsea Manning sent to jail for refusing to testify in WikiLeaks case
Former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning will be held in jail until she testifies before a grand jury or that grand jury is no longer operating, a federal judge in Alexandria ruled Friday.
Most of the hearing at which prosecutors argued for Manning to be held in contempt was sealed, but the court was open to the public for Judge Claude M. Hilton's ruling. "I've found you in contempt," Hilton said. He ordered her to custody immediately, "either until you purge yourself or the end of the life of the grand jury."
Manning was called to testify in an investigation into WikiLeaks, the anti-secrecy website she shared classified documents with back in 2010. Manning served seven years of a 35 year prison sentence for her leak before receiving a commutation from President Barack Obama.
Outside court before the hearing, Manning said she was prepared to go to jail. "These secret proceedings tend to favor the government," she said. "I'm always willing to explain things publicly."
Older article. Also at BBC, The Guardian, and Associated Press.
(Score: 2) by fyngyrz on Sunday March 10 2019, @10:09PM
No, you are confusing gender with posing. Despite the politically correct attempt to arrogate gender as an amorphous term for posing, or not posing, as a gender one is not; gender is a fixed thing you are born with.
Gender is specifically your actual sexual identity, without regard to any posing you might be doing to make people (perhaps including yourself) imagine otherwise.
Short of genetic revision post-birth, gender is the cards you're dealt. That doesn't — can't, as yet — change no matter what cards you pretend to have, regardless of what combination your posing is based upon: plumage, drug regimens, surgery, and/or behavior.
No matter how enthusiastically you pose as a gender you are not, you're no more that other gender than a white man wearing blackface is a black man. It's a pose.
Let me be perfectly clear: If you're born a woman, you will always be a woman; if you're born a man, you will always be a man; and if you're born as other, you'll always be that, too... there's no fix for such mutations. Yet.
"Identifying" as the gender you aren't is a pose. No more, no less. Nothing at all wrong with it unless you try to deceive someone into an act in a non-informed, and hence non-consensual manner. But that doesn't somehow make a change in reality. For that, you're going to have to look to (considerable) future advancement in the genetic sciences.
AIS is a hormone-related deleterious mutation that affects males (XY). If the individual was female (XX), it wouldn't have that effect. See how that works? There are uncountable mutations that have deleterious (and beneficial) effects upon the body. That's a downstream issue from gender; and for AIS, that is patently obvious from the fact that it only affects males.
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When I dunk my cookies, I think of you.
I hold them under until the bubbles stop.