It seems these days, if you throw a hissy fit long enough, you can get anything you want — even if you’re a convicted traitor demanding over $100,000 for gender reassignment surgery.
Unbelievable, but true.
Chelsea (formerly Bradley) Manning, a convicted transgender soldier imprisoned in Kansas for leaking classified information to the WikiLeaks website, will end a hunger strike after the Army agreed to pay for her transgender transition surgery, the American Civil Liberties Union announced Tuesday.
Manning’s medical treatment will begin with surgery that was demanded in April. Manning began the hunger strike at Fort Leavenworth military prison on Friday, vowing to continue until she received better treatment.
How much is this all costing you, the American taxpayer?
A lot.
The Vera Institute of Justice estimates that the average cost of keeping an inmate in prison for one year is $31,286 per year. Meanwhile, the average cost of a male-to-female transition surgery is an eye-popping $140,450, according to the Philadelphia Transgender Surgery Center.
And Manning hopes she’s just the first prisoner to get the surgery on the taxpayer dime.
“I hope this sets a precedent for the thousands of trans people behind me hoping they will be given the treatment they need,” Manning said in a statement.
Manning, who was arrested in 2010 as Bradley Manning, was convicted in 2013 in military court of leaking more than 700,000 secret military and State Department documents to WikiLeaks. Manning was an intelligence analyst in Iraq at the time, and is serving a 35-year sentence.
Army spokesman Wayne Hall didn’t immediately respond Tuesday evening to a request for comment.
ACLU attorney Chase Strangio said Manning should “enjoy some peace” knowing the medical care was coming.
“Thankfully the government has recognized its constitutional obligation to provide Chelsea with the medical care that she needs and we hope that they will act without delay to ensure that her suffering does not needlessly continue.”
Strangio said it’s troubling that Manning still faces administrative charges related to a suicide attempt on July 5 at the military prison. She wants the Army to drop those charges and stop efforts to have Manning to cut her hair to male hair length military standards.
The ACLU filed a lawsuit in 2014 against the U.S. Department of Defense over its refusal to give Manning the gender transition surgery she wanted.
The Associated Press contributed to this article.
Main Street says
It gives a whole meaning to “be all you can be”. Plenty of money for that. However, nothing but cutbacks at the VA for veterans pensions.
Debbie says
what is the world coming to? I for one greatly oppose this ridiculous. I think she/he needs a brain transplant.
Adela says
I AGREE with you a thousand percent!!!
theicecube says
I agree a 140,450 %.
Jerubbesheth says
They should give Manning a gun so he can put a bullet in his head.
Billy says
Lots of people would be proud to pull the trigger! The sob should have gotten the death penalty as prescribed for treason…… hung by the neck until dead.
chuck garrison says
just shoot IT!
Don K says
Its neither a she or a he or an it. What it is is a she~it!
Patsy Martin says
I agree. If she wants to die to become something other than what God made her, let her die. You want to starve yourself to death, great then we do not need to worry about trying to feed you, You want to hang yourself with a sheet from you cell, we will give you a skinny one that will be easier to tie. You want a shiv to stab yourself with, we will get another inmate that does not really care for those who cannot keep the tools they are given and provide that also, but giving you the my money so you can have boob job done and put in a new tool box, no I am not too pleased with that and the ACLJ can go to court all they want and I will still say No, it is my tax dollars and I feel it needs to go to our Vets not to help a traitor be something he is not.
Donald Larsen says
He is NOT a SHE!! Born a male and still a male! What or how he thinks of himself is his business and the rest of the population should not be burdened with it!
DEC says
Let him serve his jail time, then pay for it himself when he gets out if he still wishes to change what God gave him.
Lois Wenk says
Theft of money because Obama hates America and is hell bent in destroying it. If we quit funding controvercial things we would not grow and plant more national debt. We need to grow freedom and shrink national debt.
Patti J says
Ditto! Can’t get help for VA Vets in crisis but you can waste money on a screwed up pervert! Disgusting! My WWII father is rolling over in his grave.
Gig says
Well said Patti J. He should serve out his 35 year sentence. Then use his money to do whatever he wants.
Lucille Mabis says
I agree completely. Who the hell is he/she??????
ron says
. Don’t like prisons …
, Don’t like secrets. …
. Don’t like being forced to pay for what someone else wants.
Sue K says
I agree, it is his/her responsibility to pay for whatever surgery he/she wants. End of story, let us move on to something of importance.
kEN says
CASTRATE THIS THING AND REMOVE IT FROM THE GENE POOL!!!
Mike says
It’s amazing that this government who doesn’t give a shit about the veterans who did their duty and jobs without ever getting the treatment this traitor is getting! If I was a person in charge of this case I WOULD HAVE LET HER STARVE HERSELF/HIMSELF TO DEATH! I guarantee you that when this scum sucking varmint got hungry, he/she would have eaten! I guarantee you he/she was drinking water! It’s only because you have a half breed imposter president in the WH with a transgender he/she wife that this kind of behavior is going rampant! Even if there was a war going on would I even consider letting a homosexual in the military, right along with those that are Muslim’s! A true Muslim would never consider the US Military and why I think the father of fallen Khan captain may have been an honor killing by his father who stood up at the DNC and condemned Trump! I feel sorry for that Khan captain who died in Iraq, but his father is scum sucking dog! And this traitor wants surgery at our expense? I don’t think so! It’s a sad day for America!
P. Kathy Kleiman says
I any of you IDIOTS know where Manning is being held, it is NOT IN A REGULAR FEDERAL PENITENTIARY. He leaked what he considered to be “enemies of America” secrets to Wikileaks; he has been tortured, put into the coldest of temperatures naked, and all of the gruesome goings on in Gitmo this great patriot has been put through as if he is a terrorist. I certainly doubt he wanted any “sex change” operation. The same way Amon Bundy was forceably taken and had that bullet removed to prevent any evidence that he was even shot, is what is being perpetuated upon Manning. He is as much of a patriot and a hero as is Snowden. Don’t let the talking heads of the American Pravda snow you. Manning has been through what any cold blooded terrorist of 911 has been put through. Just ask yourselves: why would Manning what a sex change operation if he is in SOLITARY CONFINEMENT? It would seem to me, that only if he was co-mingling with other prisoners, this would take another dimension, but he is not. Please stop believing a propaganda like CNN, where every time Hillary is caught pussy footing, whether it be her health, or to say there is fire but no smoke, she just calls up her own personal communications to the idiots, Anderson Cooper–CNN–and gets her side of it out without one question posed to her. This is what Trey Gowdy said of her, “smoke but no fire story:” “No, is it not fire it is ARSON, PYROMANIA, SHE USED BLEACH BIT WHERE EVEN GOD COULD NOT SEE THOSE EMAILS.” But you didn’t get that part on CNN, but on Fox news. So stop believing the paid liars. Bradly Manning wanted no “sex change operation,” but he is being experimented on. He is in a prison where he is being daily tortured. Do you not think if they asked him if he got a sex change operation they would stop torturing him he would not agree? I do. Remember, they want you to believe he is a gay. He was never a gay. Gays are commies and they vote proudly with the USA Fascist party of America, the Left wing Progressives, they call themselves. That being said, do ya think he would have leaked out material harmful to his own party? I do not. And no discerning person would believe it either, for that is the ONLY thing that has EVER come out about Manning since his jailing and his torture began. Sensible people, be sensible and discerning. If I told you Lee Harvey Oswald killed JFK all by his lonesome, would you believe that nonsense?
db says
Wow! And I thought I was bad thinking the government lies a lot. Heck, I use to work for them but this post of yours goes so far over board your in the next ocean.
Rod says
Please reveal your sources of information. The rant you are on is just short of schizophrenic paranoia.
Diane says
First of all there is no such thing as ‘gender surgery’. Gender is brain and the perception of ones self and often confused with ones actual genital sex. Maybe Manning has contacted a brain surgeon.
Transgender over time has been used to identify even those transsexuals contemplating a sex change but originally had been coined and promoted to only include homosexual cross-dressers, heterosexual transvestites, drag queens, etc. I have no idea why this has occurred but there needs to be a return to the distinctions between transsexuals, intersex and transgender. My understanding is that they are not the same and should not be labeled as such under the fetish banner of transgenderism.
Manning is a confused man and should be labeled a transgender for that is exactly what he is. A heterosexual male who moves in and out of his fetish moods/delusions in mimicy of the female.
The $100,000+ quoted must be for all the treatments: facial cosmetic surgery; electrolysis, hormones, psychiatric counseling and maybe other costs to effect his appearance. I was nosy and looked up the cost of the actual sex reassignment surgery being done by a top notch surgeon in Thailand – $12,000 and he also does some cosmetic surgery but on that score I have no idea of the cost. Another is one in the states that does the genital surgery for less than $20,000. Why should we taxpayers being burdened with treatments that are unwarranted and damn sure are unaffordable for those on the outside. And why is it ok to spend over a $100,000 on a traitor when so many vets are getting less than effective care in the VA?
Manning either should have paid for his own treatment before he became a traitor or get the surgery AFTER he is released and pay for it himself. This is total nonsense as I see it.
William Meredith says
Bullshit.
Larry mandrell says
You are crazyer than a shit house rat!
Richard B says
Off with his head! No, not that one, the one on his shoulders.
John Boanerges Redman says
The writer of this is totally FUBAR. Manning did NOT put troops in danger. The USG put troops and civilians in mortal danger by sending people where they had no business being and conditioned troops to murder native people who had every right being there and doing what ever they pleased whether or not it pleased (you or) the USG. AND if Manning were where he should be, instead of in prison for actually obeying the law (constitution, FI), the operations would be at Manning’s expense. Blame the USG, not the victim. Idiot!
Lifestford says
Very true forget the vets take care of traitors I do not think he she has any but simple medical help should have just used the firing squad to begin with
Darl Kretsinger says
The Army should hire Lorena Bobbit to do the “surgery.” She’s had the practice !!
Gigi says
Let him starve. He sounds like a spoiled brat who thinks he can get what he wants by going on a hunger strike. Don’t give in, and definitely don’t use my tax dollars for something that I’m morally opposed to. He’ll either eat or not. His choice.
Timothy Goodwin says
“IDIOT-IN-CHIEF”…WAR-TIME BETRAYAL=DEATH!!!…BHO-TIME BETRAYAL=TRANNY-RIGHTS,SAFE-ZONES,ETC…WTF!!!!!..
Roger says
He’s in prison upon release he can pay for his own sex change he has no rights to tax payer money to become a so called girl
P. Kathy Kleiman says
He is never going to be released. You will never know if the ONLY thing that has ever come out about Manning is true or not, I say it is not! This is only being done to make people hate Manning even more, I say he is a hero and a Patriot and risked his life to put out what the enemies of this country are doing. Surely if he was gay or transgendered, he would fully affiliate himself with the Left Fascists. But he did not. So now, a sex change operation? You must be really stupid, and perhaps Hillary is correct, the voting public are idiots!
Rangval says
In case there are any “thinking” people reading these comments?—–A “true patriot” exposes wrongs of his government. That is what Snowden and Bradley Manning have done. Everything with this government is in secret or “redacted.” Hopefully we do not quite yet have a dictatorship? We need whistleblowers in all phases of government control and monopoly to expose what is against the American people. Whistleblowers are TRUE PATRIOTS. And they understand the penalties and risks as did those like Patrick Henry! It is unfortunate that our current administration is the hardest on whistle blowers in history. Whistleblowing seem acceptable and popular during the Vietnam era? But not so during our recent dozens of Middle East Wars. The replies on this site demonstrate a mentality which “dictators” require of their subjects? And on the topic of prisons–civilized prison are to remove people from society but not to remove their dignity or their health. Other than enlightened prisons are mere dungeons of revenge. But, of course revenge is part of human nature.
William Meredith says
How do you know it is not?
Ronald Sarson says
Wow! You should make an appointment with a good shrink ASAP.
Rico says
Government paying for elective surgery is wrong and criminal!!!
ron says
. Government doesn’t pay you do.
Kathy says
And where do you think the government gets it’s money from Ron? You and every other tax payer. That is if you pay taxes.
ron says
Kathy …
. Guess you didn’t get I was saying exactly what you said ? …
. Axially, it comes from the fed (digitally), borrowed by the DOT and we owe it back through the IRS.
John G . says
Convicted and sentenced for crimes against the US and then we pay for a sex change procedure – put “it” in with the general prison population to serve out “it’s” just sentence and then when “it’s” released let “it” pay for the procedure. O’bozo has absolutely destroyed this once great country – Trump will return the US to the position once again and make us all proud.
Sue K says
Agree!!
Gene says
Yes when Trump gets in office this bull shit will stop. Put him with all other male prisoners and they can make the he/bitch a female. A bullet to the head would be best for him
Rangval says
About the only agreement I would have with the general comments written here is we need a DONALD TRUMP FOR PRESIDENT. But not to create an ABU GAREB or a GITMO! That treatment belongs in history–such as in the Middle Ages! Face it—the only reason we are having a Trump Revolution is because of whistle blowers YOU FOLKS CALL TRAITORS. We learn about Hillary and Bill’s extortion rackets and her “pay to play” with State! And we learned about the Lying into War by the Bush people. You folks on this site would HAVE ALL THAT AS STATE SECRETS WITH EXPOSURE DECLARED TREASON? ——R
Thomas Wilson says
Don’t be surprised if Obama pardons he/she and the taxpayers picking up the bill on the sex change. What has this country become? Use the money to help disabled American Veterans.
Arthur W Green, MSGT USAF retired says
What has our country become. We give in to traitors. Let them starve to death, that
would be their decision not the Army,s. Traitors loose their rights. If he wanted the
change, then he should have to pay for it. I am sick of our country giving in to our
enemies. Stand up and make America great again, not weak like we are now.
Adela says
I AGREE with you entirely!!! All of this is part of the same dementia by the governments and zombies who approve!!!
Patriot says
If it were April 1st I would think that this was some kink of April Fools joke. Our government has gone completely nucking futs!! Traitors in this country used to be court martialed and executed. Now the taxpayers are paying to have them castrated and put on hormone therapy. Come, Lord Jesus, come!
jerry duer says
Well next a special prison just for male to female prisoners with special guards and privileges .. then sudden mental health issues will require he/she will be released and to join snowden ( after Obama pardons him) on a book signing tour and cable tV show on CNN or MSNBC
DEB RODRIGUES says
I would seriously object to necessary surgery….. is this so that PIG can party every night in a jail cell?????? WHEN DID THE GOVERNMENT…… CONGRESS I PARTICULAR…. LOSE IT’S ABILITY TO CONSIDER HOW THEY SPEND OUR MONEY?????? AND IT IS MONEY EARNED BY OUR SWEAT AND LABOR….. TO GIVE A QUEER CRIMINAL…. NOT AN HONEST, HARDWORKING CITIZEN…… A F… CRIMINAL… SOMETHING TO MAKE HIM HAPPY??????? HOW HAPPY DID HE MAKE THE VICTIMS???? SINCE THAT muslim TURD ENTERED OUR WHITE HOUSE….. CONGRESS LOST IT’S BALLS AND COMMON SENSE!!! THEY ARE THE EXAMPLE OF WHY TERM LIMITS ARE MANDATORY!!!! TWO TERMS….. AND THE ONLY HONORABLE THING DONE…. THEY LOST THEIR BALLS!!! NOW, THEY BELIEVE KISSING muslim Ass..is the correct thing to do!!!! They, like killory, are enemies of the public….. grand theft of our money…. disregard for the taxpayer….. stealing money from our wallets to allow freaks/fags the removal necessary to have parties every night in a male prison?????? CONGRESS…. THE PLACE FOR BALL-LESS “LEADERS” WILLING TO KISS muslim ASS AND KNEEL TO PIGS….. WE BURY THE ONCE GREAT LAND CALLED AMERICA NEXT JULY 4TH!!! THANKS TO muslim PIGS IN OUR WHITE HOUSE AND BALL-LESS “MEN UNABLE TO KEEP OUR NATION FOR THE PEOPLE AND PROTECT THEM FROM THE PIG THIEVES, LIARS AND CRIMINALS” THEY WILL EVEN ALLOW A SICK PERSON WHO, IN ALL PROBABILITY WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO FINISH A TERM….. TO RUN FOR OFFICE…. NOT JUST ANY OFFICE…. SHE ALLOWED NATIONAL SECURITY INFORMATION TO BE HAND DELIVERED TO OUR ENEMIES…. ALLOWED AMERICAN CITIZENS TO DO BY HER INABILITY TO DO HER JOB…. AND LIE, LIE, LIE, LIE, LIE LIE…… AND SHE CAN RUN FOR PRESIDENT????? DOES ALL OF CONGRESS HAVE SHIT FOR BRAINS???? DOES ALL OF CONGRESS HAVE THEIR HAND ON THE TOILET HANDLE TO FLUSH OUR NATION DOWN THE DRAIN??? DOES ALL OF CONGRESS AGREE THAT WE THE PEOPLE WILL SOON BE ON OUR KNEES WITH OUR ASSES IN THE AIR TO A muslim GOD????? THE LAST AMERICAN HOPE FOR INTEGRITY, HONOR AND FREEDOM: DONALD TRUMP!!!! AT LEAST HE HAS THE SAME VISION OF OUR ONCE GREAT LAND….. RID US OF THE muslim INTERLOPERS NOT WANTING A FREE HOME…. WANTING WELFARE, FREEDOM AND TO CHANGE OUR LAND TO ANOTHER muslim PIG SHIT LAND!!!!
Adela says
He/she should be left in jail to rot!!! Btu of course, obummer and his gangsters love criminals, traitors, arab-muzzie-islamofascists so all in their family!!! If Trump doesn’t make it expect all of the same all over again. Can we stomach such things for another 8 years???
Gene Stoddard says
It shouldn’t cost that much. One master gelder = one instant sex change.
CarmenB says
If there are any doubts remaining about how insane our system has become, this should remove them. I have every compassion for someone who suffers from “gender” identity – but we, the taxpayers, are not and should not be held responsible for such a surgery. Sure, provide medications and care that are medically needed for life – but not this!
I agree, let us help those have served our country honorably first!
Robert Taylor says
Put him in line behind the vets who have been waiting for years or even refused due to paperwork loss. In my case I am 100% disabled and it only took 22 years before a VA hospital to determine my problems. NO, I did not get 22 years back disability pay. I was told that the government had passed a law that prevented such things from happening. However, what did he do that Clinton did not also do? He gave the papers to Wiki, Clinton made hers available to China, and the rest of the world. Maybe both should be put in the same place and then they could get their heads checked.
Dwayne says
“The ACLU filed a lawsuit in 2014 against the U.S. Department of Defense over its refusal to give Manning the gender transition surgery she wanted” Note that’s “wanted” not “needed”…..the ACLU would have you believe that this is the same thing as an emergency appendectomy or the like. It’s not a service connected disability and Manning’s life isn’t in danger due to not getting it……he/she/it WANTS it so that’s all it takes. Sickening!!! BTW, this is NOT an anti-transgender comment….one has nothing to do with the other.
randy says
Yep—-the government in it’s ignorant stupid wisdom can afford this ridiculous bullshit.
Wasting medical talent & resources while patriotic veterans die waiting for medical service
Pathetic—–ridiculous bullshit.
Andre says
Maybe it can be done by Army doctors who just need practice or training.
lin says
By caving to this idiot the government has just opened pandora’s box. Being a taxpaying citizen, I don’t approve of my money going to this bullshit.
ct says
I hope this is not true
Elisabeth Crowell says
What has our country come to? Is a criminal no longer considered undesirable?
This Trans-Gender BS has got to stop.
Why should we as tax payers be forced to pay for an operation that is only to satisfy that person’s fantasy a warped
condition of his mind.
Carol says
I have an issue with my tax money paying for this, we already pay to keep (he/she) behind bars for doing wrong – we did not make this person do wrong. I am a retired person on a limited income, “military personal, policemen, firemen and retired people, children should be taken care of before this so called person”! We really need to be able to say where our money(taxes) go!!
Lori Smith says
Manning is biologically a male. His DNA will NOT change, though he is castrated and given female hormones. He may look and act more like a she, but he will always be a male. This cannot be changed biologically. I really wish people would stop catering to this mental illness by treating these delusional people as the opposite gender.
Our government has no business spending our money (taxpayer money) on this insanity. Manning needs very intense counseling to find out why he is so delusional about his sexual identity.
The last thing he needs is surgery. And the last thing the American public needs is to pay for this insanity when it will not really help him. Statistics show that surgery often compounds the mental illness, that these people often succumb to deeper depression and suicide. This man needs intense mental health care and he is not getting it. Prisoners who have mental health issues should be given counseling. It is a better way to spend out tax money.
Terry D. Wilson says
They should not have STOPED the suicide attempt
Phil Trimmer says
He is a prisoner in Ft. Levenworth. Let him starve himself to death if that is what he chooses. His choices put him there, let him continue to make bad decisions. I am a veteran and almost 60 years old. There are things that I will still never reveal.
WhiteFalcon says
The Army should just hold on. The hunger strike will end. Just give it enough time and it will end one way on another. The lack the balls to do that because they have to be PC because they get all their money from this sick so called Government and they have to play the game. I understand their point but it makes me sick.
theicecube says
I thought traitors were shot or hung. It would be far cheaper to even use a firing squad.
LARRY FRAME says
Should have IT starve
Justin W says
The ACLU enjoys pushing ideas that destroy America. Bradley Manning is in prison for breaking the law. He should not be entitled to elective surgery to make him look like a woman. Prisoners should be given just enough food and medical care to keep them alive. He can get his sex change when he gets out.
Our nation is broke. Foolish spending, like sex change operations, is part of the reason.
CJ says
How a$$inine. Our tax dollars hard at work
Terrence M. says
Shoot the bitch or son-of-a-bitch, which ever applies.
Traitors should always get the death penalty.
Charles Masterson says
CASTRATE THAT THAT BASTARD AND JUST LEAVE HIM THAT WAY !! TO HELL WITH ALL THE MONEY WASTE !!!! HE DON’T WANT TO BE A MAN THEN TAKE AWAY HIS MANHOOD !!!!!
JoAnn Graham says
When our military has to scrape and struggle to find money to pay for spare parts to keep their planes flying, it is DESPICABLE for the government to be squandering money on this CRAP. Cashier this nut case OUT of the military and let him pay for his OWN sex change operation.
Glenn Trail says
Son of a gun, that much for a sex change operation? Damn, I could do it for nothing with my trusty old bowie knife. No fee.
Charles says
I think is time for some of the honest lawers to volunteer and represent the average persons against the ALCU at no cost I am sure this would be a good way to get the public to know what they are all about! That would pay back in a big if Ineeded a lawer.
Gary Weeks says
Why is our military allowing this to occur when our disabled veterans cannot even get medical care in our VA system. This should not be allowed to happen, if he wants a change he should have to wait until he’s served his time in prison then and only then he can have it done at his own expense. After all he was a male when he VOLUNTARILY enlisted in the US Army, when he deserted his fellow soldiers and violated the UCMJ. No I say not until every single vet has received their medical benefits that they’ve EARNED.
Brian Bonner says
You all realize that this is a recruitment incentive right? Every tranny who doesn’t have the money, most don”t, to join the military to get their crazy operation. They need mental therapy not an operation to butcher their bodies. Not to mention the suicide rate even after surgery is thru the roof. Stop with the political correctness, you are not helping them, they need mental HELP; not you feeding into their crazy train.
Another example of an out of control judiciary and national govt. Take your States back from the ground up. The Constitution is The Solution
Mary says
If felons lose their privilege to vote and their rights, what right does this person have in even asking for this operation? What is he going to do with the new plumbing in prison? He is mentally unbalanced and should not be granted the operation. Too many vets are waiting for treatment to even give consideration to his request.
lizaz says
This is more sickness that comes from the WH. This guy gets what he wants free and thousands of veterans wait for medical help. It’s way past time for a change in the “presidency”…….
Fred says
The Army is stupid if they do a sex change on this creep. Let the SOB rot in hell.
JOE S HILL says
This is absolutely disgusting,and plain,WRONG! why on earth should the Manning prisoner even get such a treatment? he’s a convicted traitor,busted for selling classified info,and our Military is now in the sex change business? the Obama Administration is out of control,and i look forward to it,coming to an abrupt end! this is NOT what our Armed Services are about! giving special treatment
to a convicted traitor is not my idea of punishment-prisoners do not get those kinds of luxuries,even if they go on hunger strikes,it still doesn’t justify Manning to get approved for a sex change,which costs dollars,,what about the Military Veterans getting dicked around by the VA,,aren’t they important enough? all the LGBT bullshit that’s been put in areas that it does not belong in,sure doesn’t justify why this prisoner is being allowed this operation,,and the American Tax payers have to pay for this character to have his ding dong lopped-off,so he could become a woman,,that’s what our Military has become,,a free sex change business-that’s bullshit!! if Trump wins this election,i hope he’ll clean house,by getting rid of this detestable arrangement in our Military,and focus on our Servicemen,and NOT Homosexuals and Transgenders,with all their LGBT stench,stinking up our Military-and molly coddling this Manning character with a sex change operation,is NOT an appropriate decorum! he broke the law,therefore he needs to accept his imprisonment,and wait until his time is served and finished,THEN he can go become a woman,eventhough that is just plainly ridiculous idea-one,that The American Tax payers shouldn’t have to pay for!!
SARAH BARBOUR says
THE ARMY IS SICK. THE GOVERNMENT EVEN SICKER!!!!! HOW DID THINGS EVER BECOME SO DISTORTED??? WHEN I WAS RAISED RIGHT AND WRONG, MALE AND FEMALE, BLACK AND WHITE PREVAILED AND, IMMIGRATION WAS CONTROLLED, AND THE BUDGET WAS MANAGED ON THE TAXES COLLECTED, AND WE DID NOT TRY TO TAKE CARE OF THE WHOLE WORLD. WHAT HAPPENED AND WHY??????
Stu Higel says
Let every Vet who cares about the USA line up behind him, & We all get to kick in his balls!!! It should work for free!!! We did most of the work for the DR!!! Let him Rot in Hell!!!
Barry PO1 USN RET says
pay for “her” transgender transition surgery
should be:
pay for “its” transgender transition surgery
Rangval says
About the only agreement I would have with the general comments written here is we need a DONALD TRUMP FOR PRESIDENT. But not to create an ABU GAREB or a GITMO! That treatment belongs in history–such as in the Middle Ages! Face it—the only reason we are having a Trump Revolution is because of whistle blowers YOU FOLKS CALL TRAITORS. We learn about Hillary and Bill’s extortion rackets and her “pay to play” with State! And we learned about the Lying into War by the Bush people. You folks on this site would HAVE ALL THAT AS STATE SECRETS WITH EXPOSURE DECLARED TREASON? ——R
Politically incorrect says
This is what happens when this country wants to be politically correct. What needs to be done is he/she and his family should pay for it and anyone that goes to jail has no rights to anything other then a public defender if they can’t pay for their own attorney because for real if they can’t afford an attorney the only ones that will be in jail are the poor while the rich run around guilty as hell for racketeering and tax evasion and corporate greed.
But by no means should tax payers pay for stupid crap like this