Private Chelsea Manning, currently serving 35 years in a US military prison for offences relating to the disclosure of classified documents to Wikileaks, is now taking legal action against the US Department of Defense and others to compel them, by means of an injunction, to allow her treatment for gender dysphoria, including hormone treatment.

The Guardian has published the complaint, setting out the facts and the request for injunctive relief.

Here (via Wise Up Action) is the Memorandum in support of the motion, setting out Manning’s legal argument that refusal of hormone and other treatment amounts to “cruel and unusual punishment” in breach of the 8th Amendment to the US Constitution, and that the conditions for grant of an injunction are satisfied.

2014-09-25T12:54:21+00:00