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Chelsea Manning has been freed from the Fort Leavenworth military prison, according to a US Army spokesperson:
In January she tweeted that she wanted to move to Maryland after being released, a state where she previously lived. On Monday she tweeted: "Two more days until the freedom of civilian life ^_^ Now hunting for private #healthcare like millions of Americans =P".
Manning will remain on active army duty while her military court conviction remains under appeal. She will have healthcare benefits but will be unpaid, the army says. An online campaign set up by her attorney has raised $150,000 (£115,725) to pay for her living expenses for the first year after her release. If the appeal is denied, she could be dishonourably discharged from the army, US media say.
The mentioned Chelsea Manning Welcome Home Fund. Also at NPR, NYT, and CNN.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 18 2017, @11:46AM (1 child)
> "It" may be used when referring to entities of indeterminate gender, we use the word when speaking of babies, toddlers and animals all the time.
Nobody human refers to babies or toddlers as its.
> Do not presume bad faith, it's an incredibly toxic attitude to hold.
There is no presumption. It takes every chance it can get to denigrate LGBT people.
(Score: 2, Funny) by kurenai.tsubasa on Thursday May 18 2017, @02:06PM
Well, the way I take GP is that the pronoun “it” should be used until the Crocodile Dundee maneuver has been performed. While the Crocodile Dundee maneuver isn't foolproof, it should help to determine a pronoun to be used with trans men and even folks with advanced infiltrator class woman suits like me. If not for that maneuver, somebody might be tricked by my woman suit or by a trans man's facial hair and incorrectly gender them according to their appearance (as opposed to their True Gender… something like a True Name I'm sure).
The only downside to GP's proposal is that performing the Crocodile Dundee maneuver on a cisgendered woman who doesn't pass as well as I do (there are some very unlucky women out there) may invite lawsuits if not a slap across the face. Performing this maneuver on a trans man may result in a punch to the nose. So it's risky, but I understand that GP may well be more afraid of misgendering a cisgendered person accidentally.
When people used to have manners, misgendering somebody was a faux pas for sure, but other than the momentary embarrassment on the part of the speaker, we were able to quickly resolve it and move on. However, these days it's straight to condition red and beat the shit out of the person you were confused about, then double down if they turn out to be cisgendered.
(This is where I go completely off the rails. I am saying something here, but I am content with leaving the reader to dig for it.)
Unfortunately, most women are not T-900 advanced infiltrators from the post-apocalyptic future, and an Apache Attack Copter may severely damage them with 30 mm chain gun fire or even kill them if they launch off an AGM-114 Hellfire anti-tank missile. Of course, given that T-900s have a coltan hyperalloy endoskeleton underneath the woman suit, they can typically take a few AGM-114 hits and remain 83% combat effective (but the woman suit never survives this! it has to be entirely regrown same as the T-888! q.q 'tis sad, but protip for any other T-900s out there! if this happens, it really helps if you put the lotion on its skin once every 6–8 hours! seriously! your new infiltrator sheath will be so soft and silky!), though given the greater agility afforded to the T-900 chassis over the T-800, especially the bulky model 101 infiltrator, it's doubtful a direct hit would occur. When armed with a phased plasma rifle in a 40 watt range, a T-900's tactical subsystem is able to perform the split second precision aiming necessary to shoot down an inbound AGM-114 missile.
So this is why it's important not to assume somebody's gender until performing the Crocodile Dundee maneuver!
Or at least I assume that's what GP was getting at….