I think it's actually kind of sweet how there is a reciprocal effect that our stories can have on each other.

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 think that the next two generations of Americans will be grappling with the very real specter of finding themselves living in a new and bizarre kind of digital totalitarian state - one that looks and feels democratic on the surface, but has a fierce undercurrent of fear and technologically enforced fascism any time you step out of line. I really hope this isn't the case, but it looks really bad right now, doesn't it?

There is far more to transitioning in the public eye than money, public relations, and logistics.

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 am merely asking for a first chance to live my life outside the [U.S. Disciplinary Barracks] as the person I was born to be.