You miss the point. Pfc. Manning now identifies as Chelsea Manning. She is transgendered, and since her military career is toast she has come out of the closet on the subject.
I'm going to be generous and assume that duaneb poster was not closely following the story and is unaware of the above.
Transpersons are always the subject of massive flamewars online, so some folks get really strong kneejerk reactions to misgendering.
I think efbee was responding to "I think what they did was right but also they deserve a 35 year sentence" as the two irreconcilable statements. Misgendering is an important point as well, but it's not what makes the statements contradictory.
I was not aware of Manning's being transgendered, and I don't mean any disrespect—consider it an editorial he given my assumption of gender from sex (I can't edit).
I doubt it was malicious. I read about it right when she made her choice public, and I still forget regularly. I'm just not used to people changing gender, so my mental constructs treat it as kind of a read-only value...
I'm going to be generous and assume that duaneb poster was not closely following the story and is unaware of the above.
Transpersons are always the subject of massive flamewars online, so some folks get really strong kneejerk reactions to misgendering.