On a transparency front, I would say that I certainly dream of a world in which our local, state, and national and international governments and other organizations have a 21st century, digital-era transparency built into them by default.

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.

I want people to see the truth.

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.

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

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

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