WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Wednesday that he is rolling out a new screening program for “testosterone deficiency” among troops, calling it necessary to allow them to operate at their “absolute best.”
The screenings will be conducted annually as part of service members’ required medical screenings for those 30 and older, he said. Troops under 30 can volunteer to be tested. In a video on social media, Hegseth said receiving testosterone replacement therapy would be voluntary.
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kungen@feddit.nu · 89 pts · 32d
Yay for gender-affirming care!
Murse@slrpnk.net · 22 pts · 31d
Now in all new MANDATORY flavor!
VieuxQueb@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 31d
Every accusation... Man it's getting old.
Shellofbiomatter@lemmus.org · 4 pts · 31d
I've wondered about that reasoning. It's understandable for when going beyond replacement therapy dosages aka steroid usage territory, then yeah it falls under gender affirming care.
But why does replacement therapy fall under that as well, because replacement therapies goal isn't to make the person more muscular, it's just to fix a deficiency as the body functions best when everything is in a certain range and that's not limited to hormones either. And we do try to fix any other deficiencys as well, whatever through lifestyle changes, supplementation or even medical intervention.
42firehawk@fedinsfw.app · 9 pts · 31d
If it's for cross gender hormones it's gender affirming care. Doing the same treatment but within one's assigned gender therefore should also be considered gender affirming, because it's focusing on one's gender as the basis for the standards. For potassium levels there isn't a gendered range of values, but for testosterone, there is a set of values for men, and a different set for women.
Shellofbiomatter@lemmus.org · 5 pts · 31d
Fair point, thank you for elaborating. It makes more sense now.
IHeartBadCode@fedia.io · 65 pts · 31d
Is Hegseth going to be tested? Because all this is, is him indicating that everyone a hint over 30 will be fired.
As for the testosterone replacement, that is just irony that he's looking for gender affirming care for the military, when they just said they weren't for that.
BillyClark@piefed.social · 10 pts · 31d
Hegseth needs to have his liver enzymes checked.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 31d
what liver?
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 31d
he will be testing the men personally.
finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 31d
He's made it so that only men are left in the military, hasn't he?
PattyMcB@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 31d
Naww... they got rid of trans men, didn't they?
OpenPassageways@programming.dev · 4 pts · 31d
Isn't this just a way to keep out women and trans women?
PattyMcB@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 31d
Gender affirming care... like hormone therapy for men...
takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 30d
Or makeup for Peter.
errer@lemmy.world · 57 pts · 31d
Next will be Pete Hegseth measuring your fully erect cock to make sure you’re ready for battle
wasabi_noir@lemmy.zip · 31 pts · 31d
With his mouth
deft@lemmy.wtf · 13 pts · 31d
I think that's the plan for these tests
Fedizen@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 31d
Don't ask, do tell
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 31d
"If you can't hit the prostate, you can't hit the enemy. Keep pounding, soldier!"
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 31d
and make sure a healthy sample amount will come out.
oldscratchXV@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 31d
The guy isn't even strong enough to resist a bottle of bourbon. What the hell does he know about being tough?
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 0 pts · 31d
have you seen him do pull ups, and lift weights.
oldscratchXV@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 30d
So?
takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 30d
I believe it OP is referring to videos recorded by other soldiers where he was really struggling with them.
minty@aussie.zone · 30 pts · 32d
Pete hegseth is one of those freaks that have fond memories of their iraq tour
Hairyfishnuts@feddit.online · 18 pts · 31d
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 31d
with the men, inspecting thier testosterone.
Zahille7@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 31d
Apparently he was secretly Ed Wuncler III
kreskin@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 31d
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 31d
wasnt he mostly sidelined, as a nat guard by his own command. because they saw him as a potential security liability.
Bebopalouie@lemmy.ca · 20 pts · 31d
I am sure they will soon be attaching a permanent meth drip to the soldiers as well for maximum aggression.
hactar42@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 31d
They already have Go pills (aka Modafinil)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_and_no-go_pills
PattyMcB@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 31d
I saw that episode of Star Trek!
Bebopalouie@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 31d
and nazi’s in WWII but I think it was pills.
PattyMcB@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 31d
Yep... Pervitin
kreskin@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 31d
He sure thinks of male bodies a whole lot. Except beards, he hates those. Too scratchy? Its almost a desperate sort of fixation. He seems to go through wives pretty rapidly too. Theres something they just all seem to lack I guess.
PattyMcB@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 31d
His wives don't HAVE beards... they ARE beards
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 31d
Dicks out, soldiers! Take a look around. Is anyone in this room not currently sporting 10" of rock hard man meat? Get these sissies out of here. Men know what men like, and Pete is here to make sure this is a Man's Military for Hot Sweety Guys with Big Dicks again.
quantumcrop@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 31d
Lindsey Graham died just a little too early.
Fedizen@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 31d
Pseudo science bullshit lol.
waterbird@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 31d
‘flu outbreak sickened at least nearly 300 people.’ is the end of the last sentence.
even the AP’s standards are trash these days. I imagine their AI editors and proofreaders skipped right over that.
grandma@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 31d
New draft dodging meta just dropped, just in time for Iran shenanigans to really kick off
MasterBlaster@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 31d
mandatory testosterone therapy, here we come!
manniesalado@piefed.social · 4 pts · 31d
Screwball Alert.
Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 30d
Messing with people's hormones is surely much safer, compared to the influenza vaccines he thankfully eliminated.
butsbutts@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 31d
what if too much testosterone made u gay
Adulated_Aspersion@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 30d
I never thought that a leader of gender affirming action would be ol' Pickled Pete.
Pistachio@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 31d
Via oral swab tests