I think we can achieve meaningful change, but only if we demand that the institutions themselves change their behavior.

There are just too many opportunities - and an increasing number of them - to hide systemic, institutional wrongdoing behind legal veils, legal theories, and arbitrary exemptions. I hope that we can start to chip away at this, but it sure looks like society is still sliding in the opposite direction.

There is an awful lot of work to do to protect trans folks. We are still disproportionally poor and administratively and institutionally discriminated against at all levels of society.

Sometimes You Have to Pay a Heavy Price to Live in a Free Society

I think the embryonic digital world had the same affect on me as the openness of the old American frontier.

I don't think that I'm embracing any kind of leadership for transparency or trans advocacy.

I am Chelsea Manning. I am a female. Given the way that I feel, and have felt since childhood, I want to begin hormone therapy as soon as possible.