Chelsea Manning: TRANS
Is Chelsea Manning trans? Yes, she is. Chelsea Elizabeth Manning is a former army soldier who was born on December 17, 1987. She is an American activist and a whistleblower. She has been sentenced to 35 years in prison for leaking classified information about the United States of America.
Chelsea Elizabeth Manning was born on December 17, 1987, in Crescent, Oklahoma. Her father was a US Army soldier and her mother worked as an archaeologist at the University of Oklahoma. When she was two years old, her parents divorced and she moved with her father to Fort Lewis, Washington where he served as an intelligence analyst with the United States Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM).
When Manning turned 18 years old she joined the military service herself and went through basic training at Fort Leonard Wood in Missouri. She studied intelligence analysis as well as Arabic language studies. In 2009 she began working with military intelligence analysts at Forward Operating Base Hammer outside Baghdad. They were investigating insurgent networks that were using social media websites like Facebook to communicate with each other.
The truth about her trial and transition to a woman
Chelsea Elizabeth Manning is a former army soldier who was convicted of the largest leak of classified information in the history of the United States. After her release from prison, she became an activist and began to identify as a woman.
Manning is known for leaking a quarter of a million diplomatic cables and videos of U.S. military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan to WikiLeaks while working as an intelligence analyst in Iraq. On July 26, 2013, Manning was sentenced to 35 years imprisonment, with the sentence being commuted by President Barack Obama in his final days of office on January 17, 2017.
Chelsea was tried as a man but after the conviction, she came out as a woman
Chelsea might have been born as a man, but after the trial, she publicly opened up about her being trans.