Interesting Timing
I find it amusing that Bradley (a.k.a. Chelsea) Manning has changed his/her gender preference right around the time he/she received a 35-year prison sentence. Now that raises several interesting possibilities. If he (I will continue with the masculine gender for now, only because it’s just too cumbersome handling the pronouns otherwise) were going to spend his time in San Quentin or one of the other California prisons, it would very likely mean that he wants to be on the receiving end of some rough trade. I don’t know what the situation is at Leavenworth and other Federal penitentiaries, but I suspect that the sexual scene is relatively more sedate.
If I were an indie filmmaker, I can picture half a dozen scenarios of what happens from this point on; but I have no intention of going into detail in this blog.
At the back of my mind, I suspect that the former Bradley Manning’s release of information to WikiLeaks was at least somewhat motivated by his frustrations serving in the U.S. military given his gender orientation.
But why reveal that information now?
Tarnmoor 
if he could live as a woman in prison, in women’s sections, he’d be less subject to violence as a small person
I don’t know what the Fed penal policy is. BTW: I found a copy of the mushroom book on eBay and am waiting for delivery.
Was that part of his defense–difficulties in adjusting to military life? He volunteered for the military, didn’t he? If he had been drafted, I might have some sympathy for his problems. Is he going into a federal prison or a military prison or do all military convicts go to a federal prison?
I think probably Leavenworth.