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.”

  • Catoblepas ( Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 
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    4 months ago

    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.

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    4 months ago

    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.

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    4 months ago

    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.