Chelsea Manning, former soldier, nearly convicted of treason, announced over the weekend he is running for U.S. Senate in Maryland. That Manning believes himself to be qualified at all for the position, aside from what he would do once he got there, is as appalling as it is absurd and shows how entitled this generation of transgender advocates have become. (Because Manning was born male, and language is vital, and referring to him as a she is a deliberate denial of biological reality, I will refer to him with the male pronoun).

Manning, before he transitioned from male to female, was known most infamously for being a traitor, not a transgender superstar. As many might recall, Manning was a subpar soldier who betrayed his country, disclosing to WikiLeaks, illegally, nearly 750,000 classified or sensitive military documents. He was charged with 22 offenses, including aiding the enemy, and was convicted of 17 of those charges. He was sentenced to 35 years in a maximum-security prison and only avoided that fate because former President Barack Obama took pity on him and commuted his sentence to seven years of confinement dating back to 2010.