Because if you were trans and being held in solitary confinement for a year and a half, and being tortured, would you put yourself at the mercy of the public’s kind regard for trans people?
Tiger Beatdown › In or out? More thoughts on B. Manning.
Private Manning, alleged Wikileaks source and currently in custody and facing manifold charges, is probably a trans*woman. Good text on why that is probable – and why she did not out herself as trans* under there circumstances, raising important questions such as: Would the left rally around a trans*woman in the same way?
Thoughts?