# Should President Obama pardon Chelsea Manning? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [November 14, 2016, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-president-obama-pardon-chelsea-manning/772003 "2016-11-14T21:38:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 15
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2016, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-president-obama-pardon-chelsea-manning/772003/15 "2016-11-15T14:40:53Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > PS - No, he doesn’t deserve the basic respect of being referred to as “she”. Why not, specifically? In other words, what relationship does her crime have to the use of a pronoun? It seems to me that if you argue that the pronoun is not an accurate one, we can discuss that. But you seem to be suggesting that, but for her offense, you’d agree that she is a she and not a he. I don’t follow this reasoning. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-president-obama-pardon-chelsea-manning/772003)._