Chelsea Manning On Orlando Shooting: 'Thoughts And Prayers Alone' Won't Protect Us
Chelsea Manning, a transgender former Army intelligence analyst serving 35 years in a military prison for leaking government documents to Wikileaks, weighed in on the Orlando shooting in an op-ed for The Guardian published Monday, saying "thoughts and prayers alone" won't protect the LGBT community.
"I haven’t been this angry since losing a soldier in my unit to an RPG attack in southeastern Baghdad during my deployment in Iraq in 2010," wrote Manning, who was assigned male at birth and diagnosed with gender dysphoria in 2014.
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