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

I prefer a painful truth over any blissful fantasy.

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.

I want people to see the truth.

Visibility is not equality.

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

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.