By: ginasf

Just to clarify, Bradley Manning has revealed multiple times that their issue is Gender Identity Disorder (AKA therapist-ese for trans). That he continues to be ID’d as a ‘gay soldier’ is ignoring this part of Bradley’s issues are not just about being trans and that how he’s being punished is not just about being a gay soldier.

http://www.washingtonblade.com/2011/12/19/lawyers-say-bradley-manning-struggled-with-gender-identity-disorder/

And no, calling Manning a gay soldier does not cover having GID. And this aspect to Manning’s identity first appeared a year and a half ago at the GLBT site Bilerico.
http://www.bilerico.com/2010/06/wikileaks_source_bradley_manning_considering_trans.php