Thursday, 22. August 2013
Topic: NEWS english - on August 22, 2013 at 3:04:00 PM CEST
Bradley Manning: 'I want to be a woman'
Bradley Manning, the US soldier who leaked secret US government documents to the Wikileaks website, has announced he wants to become a woman.
"I am Chelsea Manning," Manning, 25, said in a statement provided to NBC's Today programme. "I am a female."
He said he had felt female since childhood, wanted at once to begin hormone therapy, and wished to be addressed as Chelsea.
He has been sentenced to 35 years in prison for crimes including espionage.
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