While middle-class Americans who have never committed a crime cannot get the government to pay for their healthcare convicted felon Chelsea Manning who legally changed his name from Bradley is going to be provided an elective sex reassignment" operation courtesy of US taxpayers. The Armys reversal was announced in an ACLUpress release.A former intelligence analyst in Iraq Manning is serving a 35-year sentence in the military prison in Ft. Leavenworth Kan. for giving classified materials to Wikileaks that revealed key intelligence about secret US military activities in the Middle East. Unlike Edward Snowden who restricted the material he leaked Manning leaked all the materials he had. In doing so he put many lives at risk.Read the rest of the article at The Stream