It’s completely consistent. They aren’t going to interfere with her medical treatment, the length of your hair isn’t part of that treatment, sorry. She’s in prison, it’s not supposed to be fun.

Chelsea Manning is biologically male. Putting Manning in a women’s prison would pose a security threat to the female prisoners.

Please. My hair is completely in a crewcut now, aka Amber Rose, and I am a hell of a lot more feminine than Chelsea Manning. But oh wait...that’s because I was born a woman.

I still have a serious question. Bradley Manning wants to be a woman. Fine. Wants to be treated as a woman by the military justice system. Fine. But why is the taxpayer paying for the hormone therapy? Isn’t that considered elective and cosmetic for all intents and purposes (IE: Not medically necessary)

Who knew military prisons could be so inflexible??

this is absurd. She’s in the prison and she has to follow the grooming rules. I’m sure there are men there that would like to grow long hair too. She’s receiving all the medical attention needed. Get out of here calling a haircut “cruel and unusual”.

You have a maximum-security MILITARY women’s prison laying around that we can borrow?

That is some grade-A bullshit coming out of Chelsea Manning’s mouth. You can’t really be a woman if you have short hair? Go fuck yourself.

Tough. This is a prison, not a country club. She already gets hormone treatments, so don’t tell me about “cruel and unusual” punishment.

Fuck him. He is a traitor pure and simple.

Cherry-picking one half of one sentence from Kristoff’s column and somehow using that to link him to these yik yak clowns only further convinces me that the left is undergoing its own Tea Party moment. Everyone is either unquestioningly with you, or they’re with the enemy. Where have I heard that before?

People tend to react badly if they feel they or their “group” are under attack. Especially if they feel they have not done “x”.

In the linked story it says that the victim was under the impression that “Kye” had been in a bad accident or had some trauma in the past that had left him disfigured. So the only way “he” would meet with her is if she couldn’t see his “disfigured” face.

She did not think she was having sex with someone that actually existed. There is only one person that she knew in this scenario. That is the person she had sex with. In the scenario where it is your romantic partner, there is a person that exists who you think you’re having sex with. If you’re dating/married to…

The victim here did not consent to having Gayle Newland shoving a foreign object into her vagina. How is that akin to someone lying about their income level?

I don’t see how its different, as long as the person is agreeing to have sex with the person she’s fucking. If something about who the woman thought that person was turns out to be a lie (wealth/sex/race) then that is different from the person not physically/mentally being that person.

And that argument might hold weight if “the man defendant pretended to be” was a real person who the accuser had dealt with previously. But he wasn’t. The only person the accuser dealt with was the defendant, the only person the accuser consented to have sex with was the defendant. That the defendant misrepresented…

Your argument would make many transsexual relationships tricky. The gender switch can’t be part of the problem unless we take a hard and uncomfortable look at how we regulate transsexuals and any “required disclosure” about their status.

Just playing devil’s advocate, but the example you provided seems different to me. In your example, the woman is fucking a different person from who she thought she was fucking. Here, the woman is fucking the person she thinks she’s fucking...she’s just getting fucked by a dildo instead of an actual dick. As far as I…

A law that permits people to retroactively rescind consent doesn’t actually cause people to take rape more seriously. If anything, it just bolsters rape culture and the idea that so much of what women claim to be rape was actually a case of her regretting it after the fact. “Rape by deception” is the socially…