“This is a great big fat ‘Oh, no,’” Anawalt said in reaction to Hegseth’s announcement. “We’re turning the clock back on rational healthcare. … I’m worried about the ethics. I’m worried about the health consequences. I’m worried about unnecessary evaluations, incorrect assessments, and incorrect diagnoses that lead to inappropriate prescriptions of testosterone.”

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    Quoting myself so I don’t have to keep rewriting it:

    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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      Are they gonna have a random piss test for it or can a soldier just pop a Total-T the day before their annual eval and pass with flying colors?

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      Yeah, it’s that thing that conservative media and politicians have been lying about. Saying that children go to school one gender and are forced to change their gender. So that’s a lie. It never happened. But now, conservatives are doing the exact thing that they were so concerned about before.

      What is it that they say, every accusation is a confession?

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      conversion therapy but they’re converting people into himbos