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Wearing the standard prison uniform and he'll not receive hormones to become a woman. >> he'd have a better shot theoretically in a federal prison or even a state prison. >> reporter: he fought for the right for one of his clients to get hormones in prison. civilian prisons do not have a blanket ban on it like the military and tax payers have been paying for prisoners' therapy for years. >> she never really wanted this to be public to begin with. >> reporter: but in court the attorney used manning's desire to become a woman as an argument for leniency on his sentence. he introduced the photo o...

Announcement help manning's case when he comes up for parole? >> in this context i don't see why it would. >> reporter: minahan said a parole board will examine his crimes and how he behaves at leavenworth in deciding whether to cut short his sentence. >> i don't think they probably should even look at the fact that he, she now is transgender. in making that determination. >> now, you know, chris, manning's attorney says he's going to ask president obama for a presidential pardon next week. they've been trying to use this whole gender identification issue as something that might help them in t...