article_snippet: Chelsea Manning, the US soldier serving a 35-year prison sentence for a massive document leak, should be addressed in gender-neutral or feminine terms in court documents.
article_snippet: Judges made the ruling as Chelsea Manning continues her transition into a woman.
article_snippet: her had already secured permission last year to be known under the name 'Chelsea' instead of 'Bradley'.
article_snippet: All future formal papers filed before this court and all future orders and decisions issued by this court shall either be neutral, e.g. Private First Class Manning or appellant, or employ a feminine pronoun'
article_snippet: said a court order on Wednesday.
article_snippet: Manning, pictured on stickers worn by a  demonstrator, has now won the right to be addressed in gender-neutral or feminine terms in court .
article_snippet: However 'in respect to historic fact,' this court will retain masculine wordage used in previous decisions, including Manning's conviction.
article_snippet: this court rightly recognized that dignifying Chelsea's womanhood is not the trivial matter that the government attempted to frame the government as,' said Chase Strangio, a lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union, which was involved in Manning's defense.
highlights_snippet: Chelsea Manning, formerly Bradley, will be referred to in female or gender neutral terms as she transitions in a woman as per a court order .
  
highlights_snippet: Manning, 27, has already won the right to be called 'Chelsea', to wear women's underwear and undergo psychotherapy .
  