According to The New York Times Magazine profile, the lead-up to Manning’s career in the Army is clouded by severe gender dysphoria, which Manning says he experienced at the early age of five, as opposed to spontaneously feeling the urge to transition genders after leaking documents. The Army somewhat relented in 2014 by sending women’s underwear to Manning’s cell after a clinical evaluation revealed Manning was “experiencing significant distress and is at high risk for serious medical consequences, including self-castration and suicide.” The Army provided him with gender-reassignment surgery later when he attempted suicide and went on hunger strike, making Manning’s case genuinely unique in almost every facet, a fact Manning will soon tell in greater detail in a 300-page memoir and…