US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday elicited instant ridicule after he unveiled a new plan to offer military personnel testosterone injections.
In a video announcement, Hegseth said he was authorizing a screening program to ensure US soldiers “have the right testosterone levels” to perform at their “absolute best.”
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Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 55 pts · 42d
This isn’t gender affirming care, it’s gender coercive care. Forcing people without symptoms to get a test for low testosterone is clearly pressuring people to “fix” their T levels, regardless of whether that makes sense for them. If it was about health they’d let their doctors address it on an as needed basis.
rockSlayer@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 42d
Thank you for putting to words the reason why I felt it's not correct and harmful to the trans community with the "gender affirming care". It's technically correct, but it's using trans people as a bludgeon
ByteJunk@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 41d
I mean, imagine how much this will fuck up someone's mind? You're all happy and gay going about your killing business and then they tell you you're not enough of a macho man, low T, need injection to be manly?
With how fragile some of these folk are, this is gonna be a clusterfuck
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 41d
Is there even anything to fix? I'm not an endocrinologist, but I thought that other than in very specific cases, all those people were doing just fine. They're just fantasising about what testosterone is.
Wren@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 41d
That's a good point. As though "maleness" was directly related to testosterone levels. I wonder if they'll do the same thing for female troups, but I doubt Hegseth is even aware of them.
Makhno@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 42d
Blibly@lemmy.world · 40 pts · 42d
HRT is good as long as it's to create an army of T'd up cis freaks.
No E for women, no T for trans men. Only for nazis.
zigmus64@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 42d
They’re medically transitioning on the outside into the assholes they are on the inside.
SayJess@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 21 pts · 42d
This is not some gotcha like the media wants us to believe. This is a calculated maneuver; another fuck you to the community that they continually kick while they are down.
Rather than offer water to a tiny sliver of military personnel, Hegseth will dump 10-fold the amount of water down the drain—staring at us while doing so.
They want us to call them hypocritical, bumbling buffoons, a dog chasing a car.
Another distraction.
TachyonTele_Esq@piefed.social · 14 pts · 42d
Reinventing shit is a losers favorite pass time
HubertManne@piefed.social · 3 pts · 41d
wait. he wants to put soldiers on steroids! I worked in a lab that made blood diagnostics for testosterone. It was kept in double locked freezer/refrigerator so two people had to unlock it and all testing had to have two people unlike other assay teams. I mean alot of work could be done alone but if you were use actual testosterone it required two.