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.

He could be released on parole after at least seven years in jail, his civilian lawyer David Coombs has said.

Mr Coombs has asked President Barack Obama to pardon Manning, and has pledged to appeal against the verdict and sentence.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-23798253

Acesso em: 22/08/2013

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