Chelsea Manning's bad hair day: Imprisoned soldier says military will not let her grow her hair and she must keep it cut to male standards
- Manning has been fighting for two years to be able to grow her hair to fit her female identity
- Military has agreed to allow her hormone treatments and speech therapy but draws a hard line on her hair
- She tweeted that she will take the matter to court
- Lawyer says Chelsea is caused 'significant anxiety' by having to wear her hair short
Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning must continue to wear her hair like a man, says the Army, according to Manning.
'Bad news for me,' Manning, 27, tweeted on Friday. 'Military continues to make me cut my hair to male standards - I'm going to fit in court.' Manning is able to tweet through third parties.
The former intelligence analyst, who was born Bradley Manning, is serving a 35-year sentence at the United States Disciplinary Barracks at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas, for providing almost 750,000 sensitive documents related to the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to WikiLeaks.
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Transgender imprisoned soldier Chelsea Manning (above) wants to grow long hair to fit her female identity, but the Army hasn't so far allowed it
Manning broke the news to her followers on Twitter (above) that the Army would continue to make her wear her hair like a man
The above portrait was done by artist Alicia Neal in cooperation with Chelsea, commissioned by the Chelsea Manning Support Network, and titled 'How Chelsea Sees Herself'
Manning, who is transgender, was born male but identifies as female. She was recently spared solitary confinement when she was caught with the Vanity Fair issue with another famous transgender woman in the cover, Caitlyn Jenner.
The military has agreed to allow Manning access to hormone therapy, speech therapy and cosmetics, but ruled on Friday that Manning must continue to cut her hair to 'military standards.'
'Even though the military agrees that allowing Chelsea to grow her hair is a critical part of her treatment plan, they continue to deny her basic human and constitutional rights,' ACLU attorney Chase Strangio said in a statement, according to the Huffington Post.
Manning (above, as Bradley) said two days after her sentence that she wanted to live like a female
In April, Strangio told Cosmopolitan magazine: 'Her fight continues because the government is needlessly prohibiting her from growing her hair, which will continue to cause her significant anxiety.'
In August, Manning lost recreational rights when she was caught with Vanity Fair and an issue of Cosmopolitan that contained an interview with her.
Manning told Cosmo that it is 'painful and awkward' to be forbidden from letting her hair grow. 'I am torn up,' she said. I get through each day okay, but at night, when I'm alone in my room, I finally burn out and crash.'
Manning also recently gave an interview to Paper magazine, in which she said she does not consider herself a 'radical.'
'I believe that we are just at the very beginning of a new epoch,' she told the magazine.
'I think that with ubiquitous and total access to highly connected information technology... we are slowly beginning to blur the lines between the concepts that have seemed so separate for generations, such as the relationships between gender, sexuality, art and work.'
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