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U.S. Army Private First Class Bradley Manning, the U.S. soldier convicted of giving classified state documents to WikiLeaks, is pictured dressed as a woman in this 2010 photograph obtained on August 14, 2013. Manning, sentenced for leaking classified U.S. documents, said in an August 23, 2013 statement read on NBC News that he is female and wants to live as a woman named Chelsea. <\/p>\n
Leading social conservative activist Tony Perkins has labeled the U.S. Army's recent approval of inmate Bradley Manning's sex reassignment hormone therapy as a sign that the Obama administration is more devoted to serving convicted traitors than helping the well-deserving veterans who have risked their lives to protect America. <\/p>\n
USA Todayfirst reported that the Army revealed in a Feb. 5 memo that it will fund the sex transition hormone therapy for WikiLeaks whistleblower private Bradley Manning, who changed his name to Chelsea Manning in 2013 and is serving a 35-year sentence after he was convicted of espionage for leaking classified documents. <\/p>\n
\"Bradley Manning is in prison for treason and now the Obama administration wants to help him break another law: nature's,\" Perkins, the president of the Family Research Council, wrote on his Washington Update.\"The national security leaker, whose espionage put countless Americans at risk, is demanding that the U.S. Army not just recognize, but finance his gender transition.\" <\/p>\n
\"Now, two years later, it seems the Army is more than willing to cater to the traitor's whims, including footing the bill for thousands of dollars in radical hormone therapy,\" Perkins added. <\/p>\n
Col. Erica Nelson, the commandant of the Fort Leavenworth Disciplinary Barracks in Kansas, wrote in the Feb. 5 memo that she felt its was medically necessary for Manning to undergo the procedure. Nelson's approval comes after Manning filed a lawsuit last September for access to the treatment and added that if he did not receive the treatment he would commit suicide. Manning has been legally represented by the American Civil Liberties Union. <\/p>\n
Perkins added that given the growing discontent from veterans not being able to get the medical services they need from Veterans Affairs, its rather peculiar to see a \"traitor\" pampered with an \"elective\" treatment. <\/p>\n
\"While thousands of honorable veterans suffer serial abandonment in VA clinics across the country, the Obama administration is rewarding an avowed traitor with expensive and elective treatment,\" Perkins wrote. \"It's a sad commentary on this administration when an act of treason entitles you to better care than most of the men and women who have honorably served this country!\" <\/p>\n
Manning's therapy approval is just another cog in the president's broad agenda, Perkins continued. <\/p>\n
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