By Faith Karimi CNN <\/p>\n
(CNN) -- Imprisoned soldier Chelsea Manning can now communicate with the world -- in 140 characters or less. <\/p>\n
Manning, who is serving a 35-year prison sentence for leaking thousands of classified documents, appears to have joined Twitter this week. <\/p>\n
In a series of tweets, the prisoner formerly known as Bradley Manning said she will be using a voice phone to dictate her tweets to communications firm Fitzgibbon Media, which will post them on her behalf. <\/p>\n
She is not allowed Internet access in prison, according to The Guardian. <\/p>\n
\"It will be hard, but I don't want this Twitter feed to be a one-way street\/conversation,\" Manning posted to her nearly 26,000-plus followers. <\/p>\n
Manning was sentenced in 2013, and in August of that year, she said she wanted to transition to a female. <\/p>\n
The Fort Leavenworth Disciplinary Barracks in Kansas, where she is serving her sentence, has authorized hormone therapy for her treatment. <\/p>\n
Manning said she suffers from gender dysphoria. Her lawyers describe it as \"the medical diagnosis given to individuals whose gender identity -- their innate sense of being male or female -- differs from the sex they were assigned at birth, causing clinically significant distress.\" <\/p>\n
Last year, a Kansas judge granted her request to be formally known as Chelsea Elizabeth Manning. <\/p>\n
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