Chelsea Manning, trans rights activists protest at Capitol, GOP lawmaker uses slur

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Source: USA Today

Published 6:33 p.m. ET Dec. 5, 2024


Chelsea Manning, the former U.S. Army Soldier and WikiLeaks whistleblower, joined a group of transgender rights activists staging a sit-in protest Thursday at a bathroom near Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) office, objecting to the Republican-led effort to ban transgender women from using the Capitol women’s bathrooms.

The protest was headed by the Gender Liberation Movement, a volunteer activist group, and ended more than a dozen arrests for illegal protesting, Capitol Police representatives told Axios and CNN, including Manning. The former Army intelligence analyst was sentenced to 35 years in prison in 2013 for her role in leaking a cache of classified government material to WikiLeaks. President Barack Obama commuted her sentence in 2017.

“Speaker Johnson, Nancy Mace,” the protestors chanted in the corridor outside the bathroom. “Our genders are not a debate!”

South Carolina Republican Rep. Nancy Mace posted a video on social media in which she referred to the transgender rights activists as a slur, telling the camera they “showed up at the Capitol today to protest my bathroom bill, but they got arrested, poor things.” She then recited the Miranda rights into a bullhorn aimed at the Capitol police building, where she said the protesters were held, calling it a message for the activists.

Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/12/05/chelsea-manning-protest-trans-rights-slur/76805521007/

[GiqueCee]

1. The world would be a kinder, gentler place...

... without the likes of Nancy Mace defiling the halls of Congress.

[AverageOldGuy]

2. She was elected by the people of her district with 52% of the vote

Does this mean 52% of the people in SC First Congressional District use such slurs? Probably so.

Excuse me, but, goddam it, I'm 80 yrs old, born and reared in Jim Crow rural Mississippi where a young black man who worked for my grandfather was lynched and at least four Blacks were murdered because they got out of their place.

This comment likely will bring down a firestorm on my head, but I know white Southerners -- the bulk of them are white supremacists "christians". All my Mississippi cousins send their kids and grandchildren to segregation academies and I'm convinced every damn one of them would be Klan members given the chance.

[GiqueCee]

3. And that 52%,,,

... says nothing good about the judgement or character of those who voted for her.

[electric_blue68]

5. Woah. Horrific family related story, AOG. And not uncommon back in those days. I do remember a pen pal from Decatur

GA in the early - mid '70s, white guy college age like me.

He was beginning to question things. He wrote me saying (what ever the interaction was) this older ?50's, 60's, or 70's yrs old Black man called him "Sir.".
So he said to me, "Me?! A "Sir" ?". Something not just on Southern Jim Crow Autopilot was beginning to happen to him, I think.

Otoh...a transplanted Black woman friend of mine from TX once mentioned that back in the day; one of her relatives had a cross burned on her lawn. Yikes!!!

[tonekat]

4. I hope she gets Thompsoned

This is it. It's us or them.