An insider’s guide to being transgender in prison
Chelsea Manning was released from prison this year after the last part of her sentence was commuted by President Barack Obama. Her incarceration had brought the issue of transgender prisoners to the...
View ArticleChelsea Manning is taking on transphobic haters on Twitter and it’s beautiful
Chelsea Manning has had to endure hateful trolling since she left prison. But, it turns out, she gives as good as she gets. In May, she was released from prison after being pardoned by President Barack...
View ArticleChelsea Manning says she has ‘accepted responsibility’ for WikiLeaks documents
Chelsea Manning says she has “accepted responsibility” for her part in WikiLeaks. The former military specialist leaked more than 700,000 classified documents via WikiLeaks, for which she spent seven...
View ArticleTrump calls Chelsea Manning ‘he’ in attack on transgender soldier
The President of the United States has referred to a transgender woman as a man. Donald Trump made the comments while defending his pardon for Sherrif Joe Arpaio, a hero of white supremacists who...
View ArticleChelsea Manning named visiting fellow at Harvard University
Transgender activist Chelsea Manning has been named as a visiting fellow at Harvard, where she will speak about “LGBTQ identity”. Former soldier Chelsea Manning is best known as the source of leaked...
View ArticleHarvard University revokes Chelsea Manning’s LGBT rights fellowship after...
Harvard University has reversed its announcement of a Visiting Fellowship for Chelsea Manning, who had been invited to discuss LGBT issues. Former soldier Chelsea Manning had been invited this week to...
View ArticleChelsea Manning is banned from Canada because of her conviction for ‘treason’
Chelsea Manning has been banned from entering Canada. The transgender whistleblower was released from prison in May of this year, after Barack Obama commuted her sentence as one of his last acts as...
View ArticleChelsea Manning wrote this Thanksgiving letter while in prison
In 2013 Time magazine published an article by Chelsea Manning while she was still a prisoner. Despite the former soldier’s troubled times, she wrote emotionally about the things in life she is grateful...
View ArticleTransgender activist Chelsea Manning’s Senate video listed as ‘inappropriate’...
YouTube has labelled an election campaign video by transgender activist Chelsea Manning as “inappropriate”. Manning announced that she is to run in the Democratic Primary for the US Senate seat of...
View ArticleChelsea Manning: YouTube removes ‘inappropriate’ label from campaign video
YouTube has lifted an age warning placed on Chelsea Manning’s election campaign video. Manning announced that she is to run in the Democratic Primary for the US Senate seat of Maryland last weekend,...
View ArticleChelsea Manning: Donald Trump’s America ‘is another prison’
Transgender former Army private Chelsea Manning has said America in 2018 “is like another prison”. The whistleblower recently announced she is to run in the Democratic primary to be Senator for...
View ArticleSenator Ben Cardin files for re-election against Chelsea Manning
Maryland’s sitting senator has filed for re-election ahead of a battle against Chelsea Manning. Ben Cardin filed his papers this week, as the race to be the Democratic candidate in the state officially...
View ArticleChelsea Manning declared ‘safe’ after tweets indicating suicide attempt
A friend of Chelsea Manning has declared that she is safe after she wrote tweets in which she appeared to be contemplating suicide. Manning, who was incarcerated for seven years when she leaked...
View ArticleChelsea Manning denied entry to Australia
Human rights organisations have criticised the Australian government for not approving a visa application in time for Chelsea Manning to speak at a series of events in the country. Manning will instead...
View ArticleLaverne Cox, Chelsea Manning and more vow to fight Trump’s ‘hateful’ plan to...
Protests broke out in New York late on Sunday (October 21) after The New York Times revealed a leaked Department of Health and Human Services proposal which would make a person’s legal gender...
View ArticleChelsea Manning shares photo after undergoing gender surgery
Transgender whistleblower Chelsea Manning has undergone gender confirmation surgery. Manning, who came out as transgender in 2013 while behind bars, announced Saturday (October 20) on social media that...
View ArticleHow Hbomberguy—and Donkey Kong—raised $300,000 for trans kids
When gamer Harry Brewis, known more widely by his gamer name Hbomberguy, started live-streaming himself playing Donkey Kong 64 on Friday night (January 18) for Mermaids UK, a charity that supports...
View ArticleChelsea Manning jailed over Wikileaks testimony
Transgender whistleblower Chelsea Manning has been sent to jail for contempt of court. US District Judge Claude Hilton ordered Manning into custody after she refused to testify before a grand jury...
View ArticleChelsea Manning’s team call for her release from ‘solitary confinement’
The support group for transgender whistleblower Chelsea Manning are reportedly calling for her release from what they describe as “solitary confinement.” Manning’s “support committee” claimed that she...
View ArticleAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez: ‘Chelsea Manning is being tortured in solitary...
US congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, also known as AOC, has called for the release of transgender whistleblower Chelsea Manning from her purported solitary confinement. The lawmaker tweeted on...
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