据切尔西曼宁的代表今天发表的一份声明称，她已经发起绝食**，为自己的性别焦虑寻求更好的治疗。从今天开始，曼宁将拒绝所有食物和除水以外的任何液体。她也会拒绝剪头发，直到她的要求得到满足。”我需要帮助。“我没有得到任何，”曼宁的声明写道今天，我决定不再受这个监狱的欺负。”

曼宁目前因向维基解密发布60多万份军事文件而在狱中服刑35年，她在狱中长期以来一直难以接受性别焦虑症的治疗。2014年，她起诉军队，要求获得ACLU法律援助的更全面治疗权。

今年夏天，曼宁在被报道**未遂后住院治疗，并因随后的行政指控面临无限期单独监禁的可能。在声明中，曼宁直接谈到了**未遂事件，称这是由于长期以来对自己的性别焦虑缺乏照顾所致。

曼宁的声明全文转载如下：

I need help. I am not getting any. I have asked for help time and time again for six years and through five separate confinement locati***. My request has only been ignored, delayed, mocked, given trinkets and lip service by the prison, the military, and this administration.

I need help. I needed help earlier this year. I was driven to ******* by the lack of care for my gender dysphoria that I have been desperate for. I didn’t get any. I still haven’t gotten any.

I needed help. Yet, instead I am now being punished for surviving my attempt. When I was a child, my father would beat me repeatedly for simply not being masculine enough. I was told to stop crying—to "suck it up." But, I couldn’t stop crying. The pain just got worse and worse. Until finally, I just couldn’t take the pain anymore.

I needed help, but no one came then. No one is coming now.

Today, I have decided that I am no longer going to be bullied by this prison—or by anyone within the U.S. government. I have asked for nothing but the dignity and respect—that I once actually believed would be provided for—afforded to any living human being.

I do not believe that this should be dependent on any arbitrary factors—whether you are cisgender or transgender; service member or civilian, citizen or non-citizen. In resp***e to virtually every request, I have been granted limited, if any, dignity and respect—just more pain and anguish.

I am no longer asking. Now, I am demanding. As of 12:01 am Central Daylight Time on September 9, 2016, and until I am given minimum standards of dignity, respect, and humanity, I shall—refuse to voluntarily cut or shorten my hair in any way; c***ume any food or drink voluntarily, except for water and currently prescribed medicati***; and comply with all rules, regulati***, laws, and orders that are not related to the two things I have mentioned.

This is a peaceful act. I intend to keep it as peaceful and non-violent, on my end, as possible. Any physical harm that should come to me at the hands of military or civilian staff will be unnecessary and vindictive. I will not physically resist or in any way harm another person. I have also submitted a "do not resuscitate" letter that is effective immediately. This shall include any attempts to forcibly cut or shorten my hair or to forcibly feed me by any medical or pseudo-medical means.

Until I am shown dignity and respect as a human again, I shall endure this pain before me. I am prepared for this mentally and emotionally. I expect that this ordeal will last for a long time. Quite possibly until my permanent incapacitation or death. I am ready for this.

I need help. Please, give me help.