Chelsea Manning

Chelsea Elizabeth Manning is an American activist and whistleblower. She is a former United States Army soldier who was convicted by court-martial in July 2013 of violations of the Espionage Act and other offenses, after disclosing to WikiLeaks nearly 750,000 classified, or unclassified but sensitive, military and diplomatic documents on US war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan. She was imprisoned from 2010 until 2017, when President Barack Obama commuted her sentence. Manning, a trans woman, said in 2013 that she had had a female gender identity since childhood and wanted to be known as Chelsea Manning.