Whistleblower soldier Bradley Manning decided to announce that she wanted to live as a woman the day after she was sentenced because a military prison said it would not provide hormone treatment, her lawyer said.

Bradley Manning, who was yesterday sentenced to military prison for leaking classified documents to Wikileaks, said she plans to live out her life as a woman.

A supporter of the US Army private suspected of supplying classified documents to the WikiLeaks website has refused to testify to a federal grand jury.