Isn’t this Gender affirming care? /s

There's a straightforward explanation for this.

Pete Hegseth is a fucking idiot.

Testosterone isn't like... You need a certain level to be a real man or something.

Hormones are very complex but here is something.

Low status males have more testosterone.

Men who have children have lower testosterone.

It isn't as simple as more=better.

It likely is, in part, related to aggression when too high.

Lower levels as men get older doesn't really seem to be a problem except advertising tells men it means they aren't good enough anymore and definitely need to buy their products to increase it.

As a feminist I am equally appalled at the attack on men's bodies as those on women.

I think there has been this big shift to constantly tell men there is something wrong with them and to sell them a fix.

It's disgusting.

I watch TV sometimes (antenna, and mostly Xena or x-files) in the evening and it's non stop erectile dysfunction medication commercials or hair loss. Or testosterone boosting supplements.

Jesus , leave men alone. They have enough shit to worry about without making them insecure about existing. The commercials are so dystopian from my female perspective.

Idk how they make men feel but nothing good.

I am getting "low T energy" from this guy

Why are they so enormously homoerotic? If you want to suck a dick, go for it. Grindr is a thing.

So either get railed or fuck your bottoms until they are in heaven.

But god fucking damn it, stop screwing with the world.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has announced a new Pentagon initiative mandating annual testosterone screenings for all military service members aged 30 and older to maintain a "tactical advantage." Troops who test low will be offered voluntary testosterone replacement therapy (TRT), a move the Pentagon chief framed as keeping the military on the "leading edge of lethality" while nicknaming the Pentagon "The High-T Department of War."

Let me guess, Pistol Pete is going to do the assessments personally, by cupping the balls of only the most manly of soldiers, because he can judge the amount of testosterone by the weight.

RFK, Jr showed them how to do it, he's been doing it all his life, and they all had a hilarious night in the Oval Office, practicing on each other. Stephen "PeeWee Himmler" Miller had the tiniest balls, and cried about it. It was hilarious.

Good times, good times...

I was chuckling until I saw the community. But then, you really couldn't make this up.

I've learned recently that I'm low-T and have had indicative symptoms all my life, and it may even have factored into my major depression.

And though my endocrinologist recommends replacement therapy, I'm genuinely afraid I'll turn into Pete Hegseth.

For women service members too?

This is becoming so absurd. I'm starting to suspect that they are all hard core undercover communists, trying to make the revolution happen by doing the dumbest possible thing while pretending to be republicans.

Who needs a functioning endocrine system anyways? That shits overrated.

Give our special little boys all the gear.

Huh, I figured he'd just mandate every male to receive additional testicle implants every 5 or 10 years.

"Hey sarn't, how many balls in are you now?"

"7 balls, Private. That's why I keep my trigger finger taped down all the time we're not weapons free."

Imagine paying your tax for that.

Another grift. Of course they're gonna partner with a specific pharma company.

Now I want to join the military, so Hegseth can suck my dick every year.

So this is the step before he starts mandatory steroid use for the 'weaklings'?

war machine break down

That dude ain’t right