Bradley Manning now legally Chelsea Manning

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Bradley Manning now legally Chelsea Manning
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On Wednesday, a judge in Kansas granted a legal name change to Bradley Manning, the former Army soldier who in 2013 was sentenced to 35 years in prison for leaking hundreds of thousands of documents to Wikileaks. Manning is now Chelsea Elizabeth Manning, and will soon be issued a new birth certificate.

During her sentencing last August, Manning announced that she is now living as a woman. However, according to The Associated Press, the name change "does not compel the military to treat the soldier previously known as Bradley Edward Manning as a woman." Manning will not be moved to a women's unit from the U.S. Disciplinary Barracks at Ft. Leavenworth, nor will she be given the gender counseling or hormone treatments she has requested.

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia is night editor for TheWeek.com. Her writing and reporting has appeared in Entertainment Weekly and EW.com, The New York Times, The Book of Jezebel, and other publications. A Southern California native, Catherine is a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.