{"id":25481,"date":"2014-08-12T15:42:39","date_gmt":"2014-08-12T19:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.opensource.im\/?p=25481"},"modified":"2014-08-12T15:42:39","modified_gmt":"2014-08-12T19:42:39","slug":"attorney-aclu-say-manning-not-receiving-approved-gender-therapy-in-prison-threaten-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/chelsea-manning\/attorney-aclu-say-manning-not-receiving-approved-gender-therapy-in-prison-threaten-lawsuit.php","title":{"rendered":"Attorney, ACLU say Manning not receiving approved gender therapy in prison, threaten lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Published August 12, 2014    <\/p>\n<p>    KANSAS CITY, Mo.  The    American Civil Liberties Union and an attorney say convicted    national security leaker Chelsea Manning isn't receiving    medical treatment for her gender identity condition as    previously approved by Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel.  <\/p>\n<p>    The ACLU and Manning's civilian attorney sent a letter Tuesday    to the U.S. Department of Defense and the federal military    prison in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas threatening to sue if    Manning does not receive treatment for gender dysphoria, the    sense of being a woman in a man's body.  <\/p>\n<p>    Manning, who changed her name from Bradley after her    conviction, is serving a 35-year sentence at Fort Leavenworth    for giving WikiLeaks classified documents. She has asked for    hormone therapy and to be able to live as a woman.  <\/p>\n<p>    Messages seeking comment were left Tuesday for the U.S. Army    and the prison.  <\/p>\n<p><!-- Auto Generated --><\/p>\n<p>Go here to read the rest:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2014\/08\/12\/attorney-aclu-say-manning-not-receiving-approved-gender-therapy-in-prison\" title=\"Attorney, ACLU say Manning not receiving approved gender therapy in prison, threaten lawsuit\">Attorney, ACLU say Manning not receiving approved gender therapy in prison, threaten lawsuit<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Published August 12, 2014 KANSAS CITY, Mo. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chelsea-manning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25481"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}