Chelsea Manning on Saturday posted a
photo of herself on social media after undergoing gender reassignment
surgery.
Manning posted a photo of herself in a
hospital bed.
“after almost a decade of fighting –
thru prison, the courts, a hunger strike, and thru the insurance
company – I finally got surgery this week,” Manning captioned the
selfie on Twitter.
The former Army private came out
transgender on the day she was sentenced to serve 35 years in prison
for disclosing classified materials to WikiLeaks. Before leaving the
White House, President Barack Obama commuted all but four months of
Manning's remaining prison term. She served nearly 7 years of her
35-year sentence.
During a recent appearance, Manning
compared living in the United States to being in a prison.
“You think about the fact that we
have walls around our country, and that is very much the same thing
that is inside a prison,” she told a crowd in London. “I see a
lot of similarities between the world out there and the world that
was in there.”