Ilsa (32,726 posts)
8. I heard an AP report and the commentary afterwards
Indicated that the Army must provide Chelsea Manning with medical care, and that includes transgender hormone therapy. The doctors will testify that it is part of her medical care.
Ummm.... no. The purpose of Army Medicine is "To Conserve Fighting Strength", and USDB convicts are entitled to essential medical care
only.
See AR 40-501, paragraph 3-35 (Medical Standards for Retention):
3–35. Personality, psychosexual conditions, transsexual, gender identity, exhibitionism,
transvestism, voyeurism, other paraphilias, or factitious disorders; disorders of impulse control not
elsewhere classified
a. A history of, or current manifestations of, personality disorders, disorders of impulse control not elsewhere
classified,
transvestism, voyeurism, other paraphilias, or factitious disorders,
psychosexual conditions, transsexual,gender identity disorder to include major abnormalities or defects of the genitalia such as change of sex or a current
attempt to change sex, hermaphroditism, pseudohermaphroditism, or pure gonadal dysgenesis or dysfunctional residuals
from surgical correction of these conditions
render an individual administratively unfit.b. These conditions render an individual administratively unfit rather than unfit because of physical illness or
medical disability. These conditions will be dealt with through administrative channels, including AR 135–175, AR
135–178, AR 635–200, or AR 600–8–24.
The Army will not pay for hormones or plastic surgery designed to render a Soldier unfit for continued service - including Soldiers confined at USDB.
Manning's queer attorney should have done his homework.
I wish I didn't know this. Plonk, plonk.
